Conan: Rice Flower Spring

Chapter 256 250. Taking advantage of the situation from the perspective of the jealous king
Half an hour later, Lin Longma received an email from Bourbon.

[Help me! I'm in Room 2407 of Beihu City Hotel. Hurry up, there's no time! ]

It is obvious that this is a letter asking for help. The letter was divided into five sections by Shinmei Rentaro and hidden in the "manuscript" submitted to the publishing house over the past two months.

After receiving the email, Lin Longma took Shinna Xiang Baoli out of the publishing house without saying a word.

"Mr. Lin, what is this?!" Shinname Kaori seemed to have guessed something. While asking, she involuntarily quickened her pace and even walked in front of Lin Ryoma.

"Mr. Shinmei hid a message for help in the novel. 'Help me! I'm in Room 2407 of Beihu City Hotel. Hurry up, there's no time.' That's the message he wanted to convey to the readers."

After saying this, Hayashi Ryoma shouted to Maori Kogoro and Maori Ran, "Mr. Maori, Ms. Maori, hurry up, time is running out and we have to hurry!"

Upon hearing this, Kogoro Mouri stuffed the manuscript in his hand into the editor's arms, looked at Ran Mouri, and hurriedly chased after her.

Because there were limited seats in the Maybach, Kogoro Mori and Ran Mori took another taxi and followed behind the Maybach.

The two cars rushed towards Beihu City Hotel one after the other.

"A letter asking for help, does that mean my father was really kidnapped?!" Shinname Kaori was filled with grief and confusion.

She still hasn't figured out who kidnapped her father. Normally, kidnapping is done for money, sex, or revenge.

After all, if you do something illegal, you have to get something for it, right?

But for two months, Shinname Kaori has not received any blackmail calls, and Shinname Rentaro is an old man who is very sick and has nothing to lose.

As for revenge, Shinname Kaori thought that her father had always been kind and good to others, and was also a prestigious mystery novelist. The most important thing was that Shinname Rentaro was not in good health.

To put it bluntly, even if no one kidnapped him, he probably wouldn't live long. Why did the criminal kidnap Shinmei Rentaro?

"I asked a detective friend to help me decipher this code. I'm not sure how it was deciphered, but...
I don’t think that Mr. Xinming was necessarily kidnapped.”

"Really?!" Shinname Kaori was stunned, and then a glimmer of hope appeared in her eyes: "Dad really wasn't kidnapped?!"

"Teacher Xinming, the code address is Beihu City Hotel. I remember the 24th floor of the hotel should be a suite.

Haido City Hotel is a famous luxury hotel in Tokyo, and staying in a suite here for a night is not cheap.

If this code is correct, Teacher Xinming has lived in this apartment for at least two months."

"What kind of kidnapper is so generous as to let the hostages stay in the guest rooms of a luxury hotel?"

Looking at the expectant Shinname Kaori, Hayashi Ryoma couldn't bear it but still reminded her:

“But you have to be mentally prepared, Miss Xinming, because Teacher Xinming may not be in a very good condition right now.

I noticed that in the manuscript that Teacher Xinming sent me recently, starting from Chapter 6, his signature on the first page was photocopied.

This means that Mr. Xinming is now unable to even pick up a pen and sign his name."

Shinna Kaori was in grief in the back seat of the Maybach, while Hayashi Ryoma told Shiraishi to drive faster.
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"This is Ms. Kaori Niina, the daughter of Mr. Niina Rentaro. Is Mr. Niina staying in Room 2407?" After arriving at the Haido City Hotel, Shiraishi parked the car in front of the hotel's main entrance, and Hayashi Ryoma brought Kaori Niina to the front desk.

"Yes, it is!"

Perhaps it was because Hayashi Ryoma's aura was too terrifying, or perhaps Shinna Kaori's expression was too sad, the receptionist was stunned for a moment and then nodded in acknowledgment.

Upon hearing this, the group of four didn't even have time to celebrate. They rushed into the hotel elevator and pressed the button for the 24th floor.

The elevator slowly rose, and this speed seemed like a year to Shinna Xiang Baoli.

However, no matter how miserable the days were, the time finally came - when the elevator reached the 24th floor, Shinna Kaori rushed out first and ran hurriedly towards Room 2407.

"President Lin, is this really okay? What if there really are criminals in the room?"

"Don't worry, it's not a criminal. If there really was a criminal, would Mr. Xinming's distress message be divided into five parts and sent out?"

Hayashi Ryoma doesn't understand reasoning, but he understands human nature. If Shinname Rentaro really wants to ask for help, he should have written down all the information in the first chapter of the novel.

Instead of having a chance of getting fragments of distress messages every week like now, who would want to make a serious distress letter like a lottery?

"If that's the case, it seems to be right?" After thinking for a moment, Kogoro Mouri finally admitted that what Hayashi Ryoma said was right.

However, among all the people present, the most disappointed person was Ran Maoli.

She originally thought that she could get some clues about Kudo Shinichi's disappearance through the new name Rentaro, but
The doorbell was rang repeatedly by Xinming Xiang Baoli, and after a while, the door of the suite was opened from the inside.

"Mom?!" Shinname Kaori looked at the person who opened the door in shock and found that the person who opened the door for her was actually her own mother.

Chairman Lin’s reasoning was indeed correct—her mother did not look imprisoned at all.

Mrs. Xinming was also surprised when she saw her daughter outside the door, but a look of relief appeared on her face in an instant.

"Go see your father while he can still hear you."

In an instant, tears filled Shinna Kaori's eyes, and she rushed to the bedroom in the suite without saying a word.

There was not only Niina Rentaro in the bedroom. There were two figures, one big and one small, standing "by the bed".

Niina Rentaro was struggling to say something to them, and then he heard Niina Kaori call out "Dad"!
The two figures, one big and one small, looked at each other and said goodbye to the new name Rentaro tacitly. After hearing this heart-wrenching call, the new name Rentaro also raised his head with difficulty.

He seemed to be in high spirits again, and even raised his hands, which should have been unable to control, with a slight tremor:
"It's Kaori. You've worked so hard."
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The two figures who left the bedroom did not leave the suite directly. They just walked out of the bedroom and stared at Lin Longma and his three companions who walked into the suite.

"Uncle Yusaku and Conan? Why are you here?"

"Sister Xiaolan, why are you here? And Uncle Lin?!"

After just one encounter, Conan looked at Lin Longma with a strange look in his eyes. I was away from home for just a few days, and you, you, you, you, you actually took advantage of the opportunity and walked in?!

(End of this chapter)