Conan: I'm Not a Model Worker in the Winery

Chapter 497: A Day Trip in the Rice Flower Forest
"Yuanta! Here, here, there are two rhinoceros beetles!"

"Ah? Where—Ahhh!"

"Be careful, the trees here are so tall, so don't climb them casually..."

Deep in the rice flower forest.

Professor Agasa has led all members of the Junior Detective League to invade this sacred area that has not yet been tainted by the breath of death.

But from now on, this forest is no longer what it used to be - from now on, it will be renamed 'Mika Conan, please don't come over here, forest'...

...Okay, let's turn the camera back to the players on the field.

Now we can see that Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Genta formed a rhinoceros beetle catching team; the other team is composed of Conan, Haibara Ai, and Hiroki, and Professor Agasa is responsible for acting as a referee on the periphery.

With his agility gained from playing soccer for 16 years, Conan easily climbed up and down trees to search for rhinoceros beetles.

Ai Huihara was holding a bag at the bottom, yawning as she scooped up those poor and innocent rhinoceros beetles;
Hiroki... Hiroki...

...Hiroki, he was holding a laptop, typing code hard under a tree.

Dr. Agasa saw that Genta's group had found the rhinoceros beetle by luck, and then looked at Hiroki who was coding... coding to the point of oblivion. His beard trembled, he coughed dryly, and walked forward with a smile:

"Well, Hiroki... it's a rare occasion for us to come out and have fun together, so how about we put work aside for now?"

Dr. Agasa considered the word for a long time and could only use "work" to describe Hiroki's current behavior.

Because Hiroki never plays games when he turns on the computer, it can't be considered playing at all, it can only be considered work.

but……

"Doctor, I'm not working." Hiroki looked up and denied that he was working overtime. "I was just checking whether the communication signal nearby was safe."

Well, and check out Noah's patch by the way, that's all.

"…Communications are secure?"

Dr. Agasa blinked his confused little eyes.

When Teitan Sanbao heard what Hiroki said, he also turned his head and asked, "What do you mean?"

Haibara Ai, who completely understood Hiroki's meaning, twitched her lips and turned her head away, as if she couldn't bear to watch, but her ears were perked up to listen to Hiroki's explanation.

Conan froze in his motion of throwing the rhinoceros beetle:
Confirming the communication... Hiroki is really a hacker, right?

Hiroki, who was sitting under the tree, suddenly felt his nose itchy, but he held it back and did not sneeze.

He had no idea that in Conan's mind he was already a hacker leader.

In response to the shock of Dr. Agasa and Sanbao, Hiroki pointed to the detective badge on his chest and said, "I've tried it. The communication of the detective badge is always connected. If someone is nearby using special jamming technology, it is possible to eavesdrop on our real-time conversation."

"Eavesdrop?"

The three treasures of Emperor Dan swallowed their saliva together.

When they saw Hiroki's expression and the serious explanation, they all felt uneasy.

Even Conan glanced at his detective badge thoughtfully.

Only Huiyuan Ai covered her face when no one noticed:
This is Noah, right? It has to be.
Apart from Noah, there is no "special jamming technology" that can intercept such a tiny radio wave as the Detective Badge!
"...Um, Hiroki, this should... not be a big deal, right?" Dr. Agasa wiped a drop of cold sweat from his forehead and said with a wry smile.

For some reason, Hiroki's aura is sometimes stronger than that of an adult like him...

It was obviously not like this at the beginning.

"No, this kind of problem still needs to be taken seriously." Hongshu said seriously and logically, "Doctor, you see, there is only an old man like you and five of us children here. If some criminals target us, we are just a vulnerable group. How can we resist?"

Dr. A Li: "..."

It seems to make sense...but the problem is that he is only 52, not an old man!
The three Teitan treasures hugged each other and trembled: "How scary... Then Hiroki, are we being followed?"

"Or following?"

"Or is someone planning to kidnap us?"

Haibara Ai:"……"

Who would come to a place like this to abduct children? They obviously abducted them and dumped them here...

...Tsk, when I thought about it this way, I suddenly felt that what Hiroki said did make sense.

Conan: "..."

Although what Hiroki said seemed to make sense, he felt that even if there were outlaws coming, he could kick ten of them with one kick.

By the way, isn’t Hiroki really just secretly making excuses for some of his actions?
After Hiroki accomplished the feat of silencing the entire audience by himself and scaring the poor and innocent Teitan Sanbo... Professor Agasa no longer dared to ask Hiroki to join them in the entertainment.

He discovered that Hiroki's twisted logic was sometimes even more outrageous than Conan's! Afterwards, when the others calmed down and went to look for the rhinoceros beetle with great interest again, Conan also took the opportunity when Haibara Ai and the doctor followed them and approached Hiroki:
"Hiroki, you know everything about Mr. Lin and me...right?"

Conan has been thinking about this question for the whole morning.

Lie had clearly told him before that Hiroki knew that he had become smaller.

However, Conan is more concerned about whether Hiroki will know about the fierce "masked gang".

Hiroki Sawada paused while typing the code, and raised his head in surprise, "Uncle Lin? What's the matter? Conan, what's wrong with you?"

There was a bit of bewilderment on that surprised face, and two parts of innocence, three parts of curiosity, and four parts of doubt in his eyes...

It's very similar to the intense feeling at certain times.

Conan: "..."

Pretend, keep pretending!
Conan took a deep breath and tried hard not to roll his eyes. "No, nothing..."

Hiroki really knew everything, and was as cunning as Mr. Lin, not even intending to leave him a confession.

very good.

"Really? I see you look really bad." Hiroki's expression returned to calm after a second. He took out a lemon candy with concern, "Would you like to have one? It can refresh you."

Of course he knew what Conan was going to ask.

But Hiroki is not Rei, and he would not be so bold as to scare Conan while confessing - as a programmer, the most important thing is to be cautious.

Conan was silent for a while, then took the lemon candy and said, "Thank you."

Hiroki Sawada accepted it calmly: "You're welcome."

He has now completely accepted the setting that Conan is a high school detective. After accepting it, he also found that he can still face Conan leisurely.

This is mainly due to the overwhelming intelligence gap.

Conan was silently enjoying the show, staring at Hiroki;

Hiroki was typing on his computer silently, staring at the screen;

Everything seemed peaceful.

Until a dozen meters away, Yuan Tai exclaimed:
"There's tape stuck on the wings of this rhinoceros beetle!"

"Really? Who did this? It's too much." This was Ayumi's voice.

As soon as she finished speaking, she immediately started to tear off the tape.

Conan, who was not afraid of getting involved, also came over and saw two pieces of tape stuck on the wings of the rhinoceros beetle - they looked like packaging tapes from a supermarket, which were torn into two pieces and then cross-sticked on the back of the rhinoceros beetle in a 'V' shape.

These two pieces of tape were probably just put on not long ago and can be torn off easily.

"Who on earth would do such a prank?"

Mitsuhiko looked at the rhinoceros beetle with sympathy, and then...stuffed it into a box specially for Kunzhong.

Hiroki also put away his computer and walked over. When he saw this scene, he silently lit a candle in his heart for the poor rhinoceros beetle that had lost its freedom.

However, no one has thought about whether there is anything unusual about the tape on the back of the rhinoceros beetle.

After the enjoyable catching activity, Professor Agasa took the Junior Detective Team for a picnic outdoors, and only sent the children back to their homes when it was almost time for afternoon tea.

——Conan still got nothing today.

……

Hiroki Sawada returned to his villa with a computer bag on his back. He pushed the door open and smelled a fragrance. His eyes lit up immediately and he threw his bag on the sofa and ran into the kitchen:

"Uncle Lie, has the goods arrived?"

Lie, who never cooks, actually...

In bubble noodles.

And the whole kitchen was filled with various cardboard boxes.

"Ha, ah, yes, it just arrived at noon. Next time, I have to ask the people at the Xiejiao factory to ship it faster."

Lie was holding a noodle in his mouth and blowing on it. It looked quite hot.

"Uncle Lie, where's the pickled pepper beef flavor?"

"Hah...ah~ In the corner on the left. Oh, by the way, tomorrow Officer Megure asked me to be a consultant at the Metropolitan Police Department. Would Hiroki like to come with us?"

(End of this chapter)