NOVEL WEB Chapter 531 Taking off
Chapter 531 Taking off
Mouri Kogoro was driving intently, but from time to time he glanced sideways to take a look at Martin and Usagi who were flying in the air and even doing a few stunts.
In fact, from the time he met Martin, about training dogs to solve crimes, subduing monsters and catching ghosts, ever-changing things, and manipulating gold, Martin has left many outrageous memories in the impression of Mouri Kogoro. There are still some things that left Mouri Kogoro by the end. Corrected memory results.
So flying in the sky on a broomstick was outrageous and shocking, but Kogoro Mouri couldn't accept it, and he gradually got used to it.
At this time, he found Martin riding the wand slowly approaching him, flush with his car window, and Mouri Kogoro lowered the car window knowingly.
Because on the highway, the speed is very fast, and the air blows in as soon as the window is lowered.
"Uncle, do you want to buy something? Oh no, uncle, take advantage of the time on the road to tell us who we are going to kill today?" Martin asked with that pure and kind face.
Martin's opening of his mouth made Mouri Kogoro angry. He had heard the Megure Police Department complain about it more than once because he was the god of plague, so he was the one who brought the case.
"What do you mean I want to kill someone! I just accepted the entrustment of the hotel owner to help him solve a doubt that has troubled him for a long time!" Mouri Kogoro emphasized.
"That's right!" Conan in the passenger seat responded loudly: "Uncle is a famous detective. With him here, he will never let another murder case happen!"
Conan is borrowing others to describe himself. The successful rescue of Omu Isomatsu last night made Conan feel inflated and determined that he can prevent every future case from happening around him.
But Mouri Kogoro glanced sideways at Conan. Conan was very confident in his boasting, but he felt very unsure.
And... "The incident originated in July last year. When the employees of the hotel were picking wild vegetables, they found a body in the forest in front of the hotel." Mouri Kogoro said.
Conan instantly turned into bean-eyed: It turns out he is already dead.
And Mouri Kogoro was still narrating: "The body was that of a long-haired man wearing red clothes. The time of death should have been July four years ago, and the hotel owner told me that he actually met this man five years ago."
"How fresh. (Irony)" Martin complained: "If this man died five years ago and the hotel owner met him four years ago, that would be interesting."
"Hey..." Xiaolan, who was afraid of ghosts, leaned closer to Yuanzi and hugged her arm.
"Then this commission should be for you." Mouri Kogoro smiled: "Five years ago, the long-haired man checked into the hotel, handed the boss a box and paid him to help keep it, claiming that I will pick up the box in a year, and I will definitely come to pick it up, even if I die, please remember my long hair."
"Oh, a man with long hair, wearing red clothes." Sakura Martin said as if she knew something: "That man's identity is his eldest cousin!"
"Ah? Cousin?" Mouri Kogoro didn't understand what Martin was talking about at all.
Also looking confused was Xiaolan, who rarely shared the same frame with Akai Shuichi, and whether she had seen Akai Shuichi's garden. Although Haibara Ai knew who Martin was talking about, she didn't want to explain, let alone mention him.
Finally, Conan explained: "It refers to Sister Qiuya's ex-boyfriend. 'Big Cousin' is the nickname Martin gave him." "Mr. Akai." Xiaolan understood: "Speaking of which, Mr. Akai did it before. It’s long hair.”
Yuanzi said that she was missing a lot of gossip: "Wait a minute... Miss Qiu Ya has an ex-boyfriend, and Xiaolan, you have known him before? What is going on!"
In the back row, Xiaolan and Sonoko were chatting about gossip, while in the front row, Mouri Kogoro, Conan, and Martin outside the window continued to discuss the case.
"Martin, what you actually want to say is that the man is wearing a bright red coat and has long hair. These two features are very conspicuous, right?" Conan asked.
"Hmm." Martin sat on the wand and changed her position. Tuji held her waist to prevent Martin from falling: "The man who entrusted the boss to keep the box was actually not the deceased but the murderer. He deliberately asked the boss to write down his characteristics and then Killing and dumping the body. This is definitely the case. It’s closed.”
"You used a plot from a mystery novel again." Conan complained. Even if his story is a fictional work, it must conform to the logic of reasoning: "What is the benefit of that man doing this? Alibi? Elimination. Identity? Nothing.”
Mouri Kogoro glanced at Conan, who knew many strange things, and then continued: "This matter is not that simple - in addition to the box, the man also gave the boss an envelope, saying that if he can pick it up after a year If the person with the box is not you, just ask the boss to give the envelope to the other person, no matter who it is or what he says."
Later, because the identities of Akai Shuichi and Miyano Akemi needed to be kept secret, Xiaolan could reveal not much gossip. In a few words, she talked about how she met the long-haired version of Akai Shuichi in New York, and then the two continued to listen to Mouri Kogoro. Talk about the case.
"A year after that, earlier than the time when the long-haired man died, a man with a hat, sunglasses and a big beard went to the hotel owner and claimed to be the long-haired man's agent. To retrieve the box."
Wearing a hat, sunglasses, and a beard is another operation that makes it difficult to see the specific appearance.
"After thinking about it, the boss chose to take out the envelope left by the long-haired man and hand it to the other party. After the other party looked at the letter inside, he tore up the letter angrily and turned around and left." Mouri Kogoro continued. .
"Out of curiosity, the hotel owner put the pieces of the letter together, and there was only one very brief sentence on it -" Mouri Kogoro paused: "May you be cursed and die!"
"Eh-oh!" Xiaolan was startled when she heard this. She not only hugged Yuanzi's arm tightly, but also pulled Haiyuan Ai on the other side of her body and hugged her tightly.
Haibara Ai:……
Conan asked: "So the hotel owner asked your uncle to go there just to uncover the truth about the murder of this long-haired man?"
"No." Mouri Kogoro denied: "He was just very curious about what was in that box, and wanted to know what the two people were fighting over around the box, so he asked me to figure it out. "
Gunma Prefecture is close to Tokyo, and they soon reached their destination, which was through a forest called the "Tougami Forest", where a hotel named Aoiya was located.
(End of this chapter)