Chapter 349 Anonymous Must Be a Goldfish (Combined Chapter)
Of course, when facing the police, Conan kept part of the truth and only said that the murderer who killed Congressman Tsunoguchi was most likely among those who received the purple commemorative handkerchiefs.
The murder of a congressman in public is undoubtedly a major case.
Although the police were unable to detain all the guests, they were able to do so by getting seven people to cooperate with the investigation.
Soon, the police officers began to look for the people listed above based on the list of seven people provided by the front desk.
Although the list did not include photos of the guests, those who received invitations to this memorial service were more or less famous, and their appearances could be easily found out by searching online.
Just now, Sato Miwako was also looking for someone everywhere.
When she passed by the banquet hall, she accidentally glanced inside and saw Jiang Xia.
Immediately afterwards, she noticed Piske who was following Jiang Xia - in Sato Miwako's impression, this old man was named Kenzo Masuyama, and he happened to be one of the seven people who received the purple commemorative handkerchiefs.
There were seven people in total, and she caught two of them at once.
However, when Sato Miwako crossed the banquet hall diagonally and chased from the main entrance to the side door, Jiang Xia and the old man had already entered the winding and deep corridor.
Sato took the wrong turn at the corner and was a little late.
Fortunately, in the end, she found the person in time... Thinking of this, Sato Miwako led the way while unable to help but sneak a glance at Pisk, who looked like he had just been beaten up, and emphasized in her heart, well, in time.
In short, the two people who were assigned purple handkerchiefs were detained by the police and taken to the same room.
In order to avoid exposing his suspiciousness, Pisk could only cooperate with the investigation without making a sound. He looked at Jiang Xia from time to time, his wrinkled face moving as he clenched his teeth, looking as if he had just eaten someone alive.
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Unlike what Pisk thought was a routine interrogation, this time the police not only did not let them leave, but also prohibited them from communicating with the outside world.
Pisk thought of Shirley stored in the wine cellar. He could only mentally make fun of Jiang Xia for wasting his time, while comforting himself: Fortunately, I locked the door before leaving.
Apart from the main door, the only connection between the wine cellar and the outside world was a chimney that was more than one meter wide.
An adult might be able to climb up the chimney by holding on to the inner wall, but given Shirley's current size, it would be impossible.
Moreover, Pisk remembered that he had been in a hurry to capture Jiang Xia and left his laptop in the wine cellar.
There is a transmitter installed on that computer.
His communications are now blocked, and Gin and others will definitely follow the locator to check.
Even before Gin, another member of the unknown organization on the scene would rush over to help clean up the mess... Speaking of which, who is this unknown member? He is so lazy. He said he would support him at the critical moment, but he was nowhere to be seen the whole time. Tui! A borer of the organization.
Although his mood had already fallen to the bottom, Piske took an overall look at the current situation and felt that the problem was not serious. At most, he could share some of the credit that was about to be obtained with his teammates... Thinking of this, he barely suppressed his unhappy mood, pulled out a stool and sat down, waiting for the police to question him.
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Although Inspector Megure arrested the relevant suspicious persons as requested by Kudo Shinichi.
But after that hasty conversation, he found that Kudo Shinichi actually had no idea about the next step, and the evidence was far from complete.
But if it's like this, we can't detain these people for too long...
As he was thinking about it, Inspector Megure couldn't help but turn his gaze to Jiang Xia again.
Among so many guests, only seven people had been given purple handkerchiefs, and unexpectedly Jiang Xia was one of them.
Since Jiang Xia himself meets the characteristics that Kudo Shinichi cares about, namely "having been given a purple handkerchief", then since he is in the middle of it, he may be more clear about what the key point is.
Even though alcohol is harmful and Jiang Xia was not in good shape today, a lean camel is still bigger than a horse...and Inspector Megure thought about it and felt that based on Jiang Xia's usual performance, his speed in solving cases was so fast that it seemed like some kind of instinct. What if he could really see through the murderer's true identity?
The more Inspector Megure thought about it, the more he felt there was hope.
He moved closer and brought Jiang Xia back to his senses as he was looking out the window with half-open eyes, apparently admiring the snow scene.
Then he whispered to him the cause and effect of today's events.
Finally, he added in a low voice: "If there is anyone among these six people that you think is suspicious, don't say it directly, just tell me secretly."
Those who can sit here, even if they are not wealthy dog owners, are at least elites from various industries.
What if Jiang Xia's reasoning was wrong? It would be very offensive.
And if the reasoning is correct...it would be even more offensive.
The most frightening thing is that the reasoning is correct, but no evidence is found. In this case, I always feel that Jiang Xia will soon die accidentally because "you know too much."
In short, even if they want to announce the murderer, they have to wait until the police actually catch the person.
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Jiang Xia was inexplicably filled with a head full of incomplete spoilers for the Inspector Megure version.
After listening to this, he pondered for a moment and nodded - anyway, he had already found an excuse not to solve the case, so no matter what Inspector Megure said, he would just agree to it and then do nothing.
After fooling the police captain, Jiang Xia turned his head and continued to look out the window.
Looking down from the window here, he could have a panoramic view of most of the street, which made it easy for him to judge the timing to sneak into the wine cellar.
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In the wine cellar.
Haibara Ai was gradually awakened by the hard floor.
She raised her hands to cover her eyes in confusion, and looked through her fingers at the ceiling, which was higher than that of an ordinary room. When her eyes fell on the old chandelier on the ceiling, countless fragments of memory quickly jumped out, connected into one, and awakened her memory.
Haibara Ai suddenly remembered the murder in the banquet hall, and the unknown person who knocked her unconscious and took her away after the banquet hall was released.
She sat up in panic, looked around, and found herself in an unfamiliar room.
The room is quite large, with old walls and wooden wainscots with simple patterns on the edges. In the middle are many display cabinets filled with wine bottles.
It was a dilapidated wine cellar. At a glance, it seemed that no one else was in the room...
Huiyuan Ai was still in shock and looking at the scene with some confusion. At this moment, her ears moved slightly and she heard something in her pocket calling her name intermittently.
She reached in and fumbled around, pulling out a thumb-sized, tan badge.
This is the badge of the Junior Detective Team made by the doctor.
In order to catch Conan today, when she went out, Haibara Ai took the coat hanging at the door.
She had been staying at home for quite some time, and this coat was the one she wore the last time she went out with her elementary school students. She put the badge in her pocket and forgot to take it out.
On the other hand, Conan was so anxious to break into Gin's car that he didn't have time to put on the badge.
After discovering that Huiyuan Ai was missing, Conan first tried to find Jiang Xia in the crowd, hoping that he would help him. But he was unable to find Jiang Xia and his phone call was unreachable.
Conan had no choice but to try his luck and go find the doctor again.
At this time, Dr. Agasa was still driving his Beetle, waiting on the snow-covered street nearby.
Conan asked him to try to contact the badge of Haibara Ai, and then was surprised and lucky to find that Haibara Ai was actually carrying it.
However, perhaps because the badge was running out of power or the signal was bad, the signal point displayed on the screen of this badge, which was supposed to have a positioning function, was floating around from time to time, and could only be vaguely located around the city of Beihu Hotel. Its communication function was also limited to a certain extent, and it was unknown how long it could last.
In the cellar.
Huiyuan Ai stared at the badge that was shouting in the air silently. After hesitating for a while, she picked it up, answered a few questions briefly, and told the people in the car what she had observed.
Then she got up, walked to the door of the wine cellar, and turned the door handle.
Finding that the door was indeed locked, Huibara Ai was silent for a moment and lost her brilliance.
She whispered sadly to the badge, "The information about the drug and the information about the organization I know are all in a hidden folder on the computer. The doctor knows the password. After the organization takes my body away, you can try to use that information to study APTX4869 and its antidote.
"Also, after this incident, more people will know that it has a chance to shrink adults. You won't be able to be so leisurely anymore. Be careful to hide and don't implicate Jiang Xia and the doctor... Okay, I've said everything I need to say. You can go now and don't contact me again, or you'll be implicated."
"...Wait!" Conan's eyes jumped. Due to the signal, Haibara Ai's voice was very intermittent, but the pessimism like a last word was conveyed without any loss.
This won't work...
Conan tried to enlighten her, trying to arouse Huiyuan's desire to live:
"It's not time to give up yet! Jiang Xia was also at the Beihu City Hotel today. If he knew that you died next to him, he would definitely start to investigate the matter seriously. With his ability, it won't take long for him to discover the existence of the organization. The deeper he investigates, the more dangerous things will become... Even for him and for us, you can't just die like this."
Huiyuan Ai: “…”
The first half made her heart twitch.
In the second half, I gradually had a lot to complain about.
...Every time she thought of Conan shouting about looking for the man in black, and Jiang Xia passing by him every day but he didn't notice anything, Haibara Ai always felt that the title of "Famous Detective Kudo Shinichi" was a bit exaggerated.
However, what Conan said still made her have other worries.
——Once the organization finds out that she has been living outside in the form of a child for so long, and that she is clean and tidy and living a good life, the organization will inevitably realize that someone has taken her in.
Regardless of whether it was for the sake of secrecy or pure revenge, the organization would strictly interrogate her. There were so many messy methods in the organization, and there were also things like truth serum. What if she couldn't hold on and accidentally leaked the relevant information...
The blood-washed Beika Street, the corpses of acquaintances scattered all over the ground, and her own bloody self slowly emerged in Haibara Ai's mind, and she broke out in a cold sweat.
She realized belatedly that the consequence of being captured by the organization was not as simple as "being killed" as she had just thought.
...If she wants to avoid the torment of torture and not implicate those who have helped her, she now has only two options - either die immediately, or find a way to leave alive!
Haibara Ai slowly turned her head, little by little, her eyes fixed on the sharp corner of the table.
After a moment, he turned his head silently and looked at the chimney in the corner.
Then his eyes began to move back and forth between the corner of the table and the chimney, flickering and hesitant.
A few meters away, in the shadow of the top floor of the wine cabinet, Miyano Akemi was lying on the spread-out puppet clay, rubbing her translucent Q-version cuffs nervously from time to time, looking at her as if she could drop from the sky at any time by pressing down on the hem of her skirt.
At the same time, Conan's voice came intermittently from the badge, and he introduced the current situation - the police have detained suspicious persons and prohibited them from using communication tools. As long as they find the "Pisk" among them and capture him before the detention time ends, Huiyuan Ai will be safe for the time being.
Haibara Ai listened to these situations silently, silently feeling the mysterious gaze that seemed to come from heaven, and fell into deep thought.
...In fact, if you really want to escape, it seems that it is not impossible.
Her gaze finally stopped on the chimney in the wine cellar. Her small hand, covered with dust from the floor, groped into the secret pocket inside and slowly grasped a small box in her pocket.
The chimney in the wine cellar is indeed difficult for children to climb.
But if it is an adult size...
Huibara Ai gritted her teeth, made up her mind, took out the box that was slightly warm from her grasp, poured out a capsule from it, and swallowed it with difficulty.
This is one of the temporary antidotes for APTX4869.
Late one night before, the child who called himself "Xiaobai" and rescued her to the doctor's house on the day she defected, climbed onto the windowsill of the doctor's house and brought her a bottle of "Laobai Ganer".
At that time, Xiaobai told her that people who were made smaller by APTX4869 could temporarily return to adult size by drinking this "Laobai Ganer" when they have a cold.
At first, when she heard the name of the wine, Huihara Ai thought it was the wine brewed by Xiaobai's father or grandfather, and therefore suspected that this was actually some kind of interim research result of an anonymous person on APTX4869.
After careful investigation, it was confirmed that this was just a normal wine with a long history, and the anonymous people seemed to have discovered its efficacy by accident.
In short, based on the wine and information provided by Xiaobai, Haibara Ai developed some temporary antidotes after several experiments.
She did not tell Dr. Agasa and Conan about this. Because when Xiaobai gave her the wine, he also said that these things must be kept strictly confidential, and even if there is a result, the antidote cannot be given to anyone except the anonymous people.
So after Haibara Ai achieved some initial results, she kept waiting for Anonymous to come to her.
In addition, judging from Xiaobai and the anonymous person who looks very much like her sister, anonymous people seem to have the habit of appearing and disappearing mysteriously, so when she goes out, she always carries some antidote with her so that she can pass it to them when they meet on the road.
However, after such a long time, no Anonymous came to find her, and no one climbed through her window in the middle of the night, as if they had forgotten about it... The antidote she carried with her came in handy now.
(End of this chapter)
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