The two perverts looked at each other, and although they both had smiles on their faces, the expressions in their eyes were perfectly restrained, not revealing the slightest bit of emotion.
Samuste saw Komiyama Yuu's purple eyes, and his fingers couldn't help but move slightly, so he simply adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses to cover up the unnatural movement. Komiyama Yuu maintained a cat-like W-shaped smile throughout the whole process, but there was a smear of malice in his eyes.
Regardless of the undercurrents of the two people, Jiang Lai leisurely placed his hands on the railing, detached from the world. He looked ahead, emptying his mind and admiring the beautiful bell orchids for a while.
Kurosawa Akira was as well-behaved as ever, taking small sips of his drink while slowly turning his head to the other side.
Jiang Lai caught a glimpse of the silver-haired boy's movements out of the corner of his eye, and looked over. Several familiar figures jumped into his sight - Kogoro Mouri, Ran Mouri, Conan, Haibara Ai, and... Ueda Kariko.
Ueda Kariko actually came? Jiang Lai paused slightly. It seems that what happened just now was not an illusion.
When Mao Li and his group looked over, Jiang Lai adjusted his facial expression just right, smiled warmly and waved, "Good morning!"
"Hey, Teacher Jiang Lai." Mao Lilan also waved with a smile, and others followed suit to greet her.
Ueda Kariko smiled gently: "It's Mr. Jiang, I still remember you and Kurosawa."
"I remember you too, Ms. Ueda." Jiang Lai also nodded and responded with a smile.
"Hello, Sister Ueda." Kurosawa Akira said politely, looking up.
The fight between the two perverts, Yuu Komiyayama and Samuster, was of course carried out in secret. When they noticed other people coming, they tacitly put away their previous undercurrents, put their masks back in place, and greeted and dealt with the follow-up.
Haibara Ai's alcohol detector system was still very sensitive. When Komiyayama Yuu walked over, her body stiffened slightly and her brown hair dropped with the movement.
At this time, Ueda Kariko introduced herself to Komiyama Yuu and Samuster. She took a small step forward and just happened to cover the figure of Haibara Ai, blocking her behind her.
Jiang Lai raised his eyebrows inwardly when he noticed this tiny detail, but he didn't show any special reaction on the surface.
As his thoughts raced, Jiang Lai recalled what he had seen before regarding Ueda Kariko.
The first meeting was at the amusement park, as one of the three candidates for Pinot Noir. At the same time, at that moment, because of the accident of arrows flying randomly, the opponent showed a strong reaction ability and pulled Kurosawa Akira away to save the opponent from the attack. There is a cob in her hand, and according to her, it is because she loves fighting and archery.
Because the police were also present at the time, Jiang Lai judged that he was a member of the police, but in fact there was no concrete evidence.
After that, we had no offline contact and all the information we learned came from comics.
Ueda Kariko often appears with the Mori family, either by chance or as a friend's invitation. During their time together, she seems to be more patient with children, and shows a certain degree of special concern for Haibara Ai and the people around her.
Jiang Lai read through these relatively daily events very quickly, but he also captured the key parts and recorded them in his own hidden memo.
For example, in a dangerous situation of falling into the water, Ueda Kariko jumped into the rapids without hesitation to save Conan and Haibara Ai. After getting ashore, her straight flax hair was stuck to her face, and there were scratches on her cheeks from debris in the water. Bright red color spread along the scars - it was blood.
The key point that Jiang Lai quickly grasped was: she did not disguise herself.
She didn't look like Icewine Lamb or Akai Shuichi's disguised Subaru Okiya, with a disguise mask pasted or painted on her face - this face was the real appearance of Ueda Kariko.
"Brother Jiang Lai."
The childish shout from Kurosawa Akira brought Jiang Lai back from his thoughts. He came to his senses and noticed that everyone was getting ready to continue the exhibition.
After experiencing Samuster, Komiyayama Yuu's state of mind has changed, and adding more people to the group is no big deal to him now.
At this time, he smiled and waved to Jiang Lai lively, saying: "Mr. Lai, let's go."
"Okay, I'm coming." Jiang Lai responded warmly. He lifted his feet and pulled Kurosawa Akira to follow.
Conan Edogawa is still wary of Komiyama Yuu, and he doesn't know how many clues he has found, but at this time, it seems that he has roughly locked on to the fact that Komiyama Yuu is Pinot Noir.
Haibara Ai was quietly mixed in the crowd, with Ueda Kariko standing not too far away from her.
"It's really lively here with everyone touring together." Samuster showed an elegant smile and gestured, "Everyone, there is a Sleeping Beauty statue made of flowers in the next exhibition hall. If you want to take a photo, I can ask the professional photographer here to take a group photo for everyone."
"It sounds great." Mao Lilan narrowed her eyes, and her youthful aura danced over the girl.
The next exhibition hall is in front of us. When people step in, the first thing they see is a huge painting of Sleeping Beauty surrounded by lush and bright flowers - the double impact on vision and smell brings a huge shock to people.
"It's really beautiful." Ueda Kariko praised softly, her eyes fell on the color block of the "Sleeping Beauty" necklace, where there seemed to be something clustered in the center of the flower. "Is this a surprise detail? There is a figure of Sleeping Beauty inside the necklace."
Mao Lilan also noticed: "Hey? Is that a plastic person inside? It's a little hard to see clearly. However, this design is very delicate!"
Samuster heard this, but he did not show the reserved smile he showed when he was praised just now. Instead, he frowned slightly and said, "I don't remember designing this content... Did the person in charge of the exhibition hall join in privately at the last minute?"
Conan Edogawa's sharp detective sense was alerted as soon as he heard that there was a human figure among the clusters of flowers in the necklace color block. He quickly adjusted the glasses that the doctor had upgraded for him and zoomed in to see the scene there.
(A black-haired woman with her eyes tightly closed, her hands on her chest, in a very peaceful posture. The color of her clothes on her chest seems to be darker than other places...)
Conan adjusted his glasses again and continued to zoom in.
(Those dark colors are...)
There was a bustling crowd around, and amid the noise, Jiang Lai vaguely heard the sound of something breaking.
Then, the huge standing statue of Sleeping Beauty with bouquet seemed to lose its support and began to fall forward!
Jiang Lai: “!”
Although the huge bouquet statue is mostly made up of flowers, it also has a metal frame inside. If it falls on a person, it will definitely be a fatal blow!
A huge shadow loomed over them, and the crowd who noticed something was wrong screamed and fled in all directions, dispersing Jiang Lai and others who had originally gathered!
When Jiang Lai noticed the fall, he shouted without hesitation: "Run to the sides!" Then he picked up Kurosawa Akira with one hand and Conan, who was closest to him, with the other hand and dodged to the side!
Ai Huihara was knocked down by the chaotic crowd, and she could hardly stand up in the crowd of people pushing and shoving each other. The next moment, a pair of soft but strong arms pulled her up from the ground, and Ueda Kariko, with shoulder-length straight hair, hugged Ai Huihara and slid to the side before the statue pressed down!
There was a loud crash, accompanied by other sounds of breaking and shattering, and the flowers were scattered all over the ground, with petals falling and juice flying everywhere. All around were the gasps of people who had survived the disaster and the faint cries of others.
The protected Haibara Ai raised her head from Ueda Kariko's arms, her expression still a little dazed. Part of the reason was the sudden disaster that had just come, and the larger reason was——
When Kariko Ueda pulled her in the crowd just now, she didn't finish her words until she lip-synced:
【Miyano...】.
Did I see it wrong? How did the other party know my real last name?
At this time, there were obvious scratches on Ueda Kariko's arms, but she didn't care too much. Her lavender eyes gently lowered and looked at the brown-haired girl in her arms, and asked with concern: "Are you okay, Huiyuan?"
Huihara Ai opened her mouth and said in a voice that seemed to come from far away: "...I'm fine."
On the other side, Jiang Lai put down Kurosawa Akira and Conan, looked at the collapsed bouquet statue from a distance, and wiped the sweat in his heart: the case and the accident are late but they have arrived.
When he put the two children down, he felt his cell phone vibrate, which was an incoming message.
While everyone was still calming down, Jiang Lai took out his cell phone and found an unexpected email.
——This time, the email was not sent to [Jiang Lai] or [Ice Wine], but to an email address belonging to [Hidden BOSS] that had not received any messages for a long time.
The sender of this email was a string of garbled characters. Jiang Lai knew that this was hidden. He raised his eyebrows slightly and then clicked it.
The content is also very simple.
[What are you doing now, a rat living in the shadows, waiting to steal other people's property? ]
Jiang Lai's expression paused slightly. When he heard this title, he immediately thought of the gentleman in the organization!
A month has passed since I got the incomplete password sheet. Could it be that the other party has already cracked the rest of the content? ! This speed is too fast——
He tightened his grip on the phone and lowered his eyes.
Conan ran to check on the others the moment he landed. At this time, only Kurosawa Akira was left beside Jiang Lai. Kurosawa Akira seemed to be able to guess Jiang Lai's inner thoughts. He didn't look up, but just said lightly: "It won't be cracked so quickly."
He raised his face, revealing his grey-green eyes: "To get the hidden boss's mailbox, you don't necessarily have to find the password and unlock the intelligence in his hands."
Jiang Lai paused for a second and understood what Kurosawa Akira meant.
——There might be a traitor on their side, or they might have accidentally leaked the email address.
The current gentleman's behavior of sending him a message at this time was a deliberate pressure, or an attempt to mislead him and make him think that the organization has cracked the code and the situation cannot be reversed.
"It's actually not a big deal to get the mailbox." Kurosawa Akira chuckled, "I've said before that it's just an email address, and we can't find the person behind it."
That's true. Jiang Lai thought for a few seconds. With his hacking skills, it's impossible for the other party to find him through this email address!
Moreover, maybe he sent this message just as a test - the gentleman was not sure whether the hidden boss of the organization was behind this email address.
Thinking of this, Jiang Lai slightly frowned, paused for a few seconds, and slowly typed a reply:
[Are you alone at home tonight (love)? Are you lonely and have no one to accompany you? (love) Hot and exciting video (love) Passionate philosophy private chat (love) Sweet small window interaction~ (love)]