Chapter 457 How to Save Huiyuan Ai's Conscience
The Junior Detective Team had seen many cases, so when they heard about these things with strange uses, they had a bad feeling.
They didn't dare to snatch the receipt from Jiang Xia, but the receipt was in Conan's hands at this time.
Soon, the three children squeezed next to Conan, took out a ticket from the neatly folded ticket, and looked at the items on it: "12 eggs, low-gluten flour, paper cups, chocolate colored pins, butter..."
As she was reading, Ayumi breathed a sigh of relief: "These are the ingredients for making cupcakes. I've bought them with my mother before. Someone who is about to kill someone will definitely not be in the mood to make desserts!"
"Yes, and this person seems to be sick." Mitsuhiko also looked at another receipt in his hand and whispered, "Look, he also went to the pharmacy and bought grams..." He read the unfamiliar medicine name unskillfully, "Crony."
"Kroni?!" Conan's face changed slightly.
Jiang Xia glanced at Conan and pondered over this unfamiliar word.
He had never heard of this kind of medicine, and thought it might be some kind of specialty of the scientific world...
Fortunately, at this time, without him asking any more questions, the three children automatically began to ask Conan: "What's wrong? What's the problem with this medicine?"
Jiang Xia pricked up his ears as if nothing had happened, ready to eavesdrop.
Conan didn't notice that there was one more person to be popularized science.
He said solemnly: "This is a colorless or white crystal, generally used for skin disinfection and sterilization...
“More importantly, it has no special smell, but is highly toxic and can easily kill small animals. If it is made for human consumption, it will cause the consumer to become paralyzed and lose strength.
"I've encountered this before... Ahem, Brother Jiang Xia has encountered cases where this drug was used to poison cats and dogs, or mixed into food to kidnap people."
Jiang Xia nodded.
On the surface, he was trying to help Conan save the situation, but in reality, he felt that he had gained useful knowledge.
Cronie needs to take note of this.
——A colorless and odorless poison, it is very convenient to sneak it into food. When I get back, I will check its specific effects. If the side effects are not serious, I will stockpile some, which can complement the anesthetic injection...
Conan felt something was wrong when he heard Jiang Xia reading the receipt containing the hatchet.
When he saw that the shopper's list contained poison, he immediately realized that the situation had become serious.
When these items are connected together, it is easy for people to imagine a murder assembly line.
- Mix "Kroni" into desserts, trick people into eating them, and make them lose their ability to move. Then put on raincoats, chop up the bodies with hatchets, pack them into pieces and take them away...
Thinking of this, Conan's face turned grim. He suddenly turned to Jiang Xia and said, "We have to find that person as soon as possible."
Jiang Xia nodded and flipped through the long paper in his hand: "There are several other receipts folded together... From these, we may be able to find clues about that person."
…When this group of kids get together, their potential is truly extraordinary.
…
The remaining receipts were from different places and times, but they were all recent shopping records in this area.
Only one receipt was special - unlike the other receipts, this one was not a purchase record left in the commercial district, but was received by a mysterious person when he bought a plastic umbrella at the convenience store of the Utopia Rice Park branch.
The group first asked about the situation in the shops around the shopping mall.
Not being able to get any useful information, I took a ride to the convenience store again to check out the situation.
Before leaving, Jiang Xia added some dry ice to the shopping bag to prevent the shrimp and fish he just bought from going bad. He still remembered what Huiyuan Ai had told him to do when buying groceries. He wanted both the information about the Junior Detective Team and a delicious dinner.
The weather is neither cold nor hot now, so in order to avoid wasting too much time looking for murderous aura or ghosts and affecting the quality of fish and shrimp.
On the way, Jiang Xia called Huihara Ai.
Haibara Ai quickly picked up the phone.
She cleared her throat a little guiltily: "Well, how about the supermarket?"
"It's good, the ingredients are all very fresh." Jiang Xia was in a better mood than the ingredients. "By the way, when I was shopping in the supermarket, I ran into a few of your classmates, and we discovered something wrong together..."
He briefly mentioned the strange receipt, then added:
"We plan to investigate near Utopia Rice Flower Park and try to prevent any possible injuries. If you have time, why don't you come over and pick up the ingredients?"
Huihara Ai breathed a sigh of relief silently: "Okay, I'll be there soon."
As expected, those kids encountered trouble again.
At times like this, of course it would be safer with Jiang Xia around...
The pain in Haibara Ai's conscience was subtly relieved a little.
…
Near Utopia Rice Flower Park.
The two groups soon met near an intersection.
Haibara Ai took the cold shopping bag from Jiang Xia, her eyes drifting slightly. She glanced at Conan, who was looking between her and Jiang Xia, thinking, and then showing an "I see" expression, and the three children who were the opposite of Conan, focusing on the receipt and not realizing that they were being sold... Her fragile conscience began to ache again.
Haibara Ai adjusted her jacket in a concealing manner.
Then he looked at the three children, his gaze and tone softened: "When you're done, do you want to come over to my place for some dessert? I just baked some cookies."
The three hungry kids' eyes lit up when they heard about the delicious snacks.
But before he could nod excitedly, a few meters away, a series of crisp "ding-ding" sounds suddenly came from.
It seemed as if some small metal object had fallen to the ground.
Jiang Xia turned his head to look at the source of the sound, then raised his head casually and looked diagonally upwards.
——Next to it stands a nine-story apartment building.
While the other children were concentrating on finding the source of the sound, Jiang Xia pressed the ghosts that wanted to rush out to kill people back into his pockets, and followed them to the place where the metal sound came from.
Just now, a group of them were standing near the intersection.
After turning the intersection and walking less than five meters forward, you can see a faint reflection on the ground.
Looking closely, there was a metal "S" shaped hook lying there.
Genta Kojima's eyes fell on it, his eyes lit up, and he planned to pick it up.
As soon as he stretched out his hand, he suddenly felt something was wrong.
Looking closely, he saw that Ayumi and Mitsuhiko next to him were not rushing over to him happily when they saw a clue like they did before. Instead, they were staring at him and blinking frantically.
“…”
Genta Kojima was stunned and looked down at his feet.
There was a figure there, cast upon him from behind by the setting sun.
The elementary school student, who had a long reflex arc, shuddered a beat late.
The next second, he withdrew his hand that was reaching for the hook, stood up straight, and quietly moved to the side to make way, pretending that nothing had happened.
(End of this chapter)
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