Ming Ke: When the villain accidentally mixes into the protagonist group

Kogoro Mouri recalled what had happened recently. After Naoko Beeping left the detective agency, he changed the lock. However, when he came back from the steel ball shop the next day, he found new scratches on the lock. He searched the house but found nothing. However, nothing was missing from the agency.

Even the bracelet and golden ticket that he casually threw on the coffee table were the same as before, which made Kogoro Mori feel vaguely uneasy.

However, after talking with Eri Kisaki on the phone and learning that she and Xiaolan were safe, he felt relieved and began to think about the intruder's intentions and who attacked Xiaolan.

Time passed quickly and the days passed peacefully.

After Mao Lilan's injury recovered, she returned to school and the final exam came as scheduled.

The day before the holiday, Kogoro Mouri was sitting at his desk, wearing headphones and listening to horse racing commentary on the radio, when suddenly his cell phone rang.

When he took it out and looked at it, it turned out to be Mao Lilan's call. He reached out and pulled off the earphones and pressed the connect button. His daughter's clear and pleasant voice came from the phone: "Dad, Mom and I will prepare to go home after buying the things we need to bring tomorrow."

Maori Kogoro thought to himself that he was just buying something. They had told him that everything was ready on the cruise ship, so he didn't need to bring any extra luggage. Forget it, women are trouble. But he said, "Are you guys going to have dinner outside, or come back? I'm a little hungry."

"Mom, Dad said he was hungry and wanted us to go home."

"It will probably take a long time to shop around. If he's hungry, let him go to the Polo Café downstairs to eat something." Kisaki Eri's voice came from the other end of the phone.

Maori Kogoro thought for a long time, and finally reminded: "Buy less things."

"Mom said she wanted some medicine for seasickness, cold medicine, and some medicine for diarrhea. Dad, is there anything you need us to buy?"

"Be careful not to buy anything with metal in it. The other party has reminded us several times."

"Yeah, that's what my mom said," Mao Lilan said excitedly, "That's why I came here to shop because many clothes have metal zippers or decorations on them."

"Come back early." After saying that, Kogoro Mouri hung up the phone and continued to listen to the horse racing commentary attentively.

The hands of the wall clock moved rapidly.

Kogoro Mouri was so hungry that his stomach was sticking to his back, but Kisaki Eri and Mouri Ran had not returned yet, so he had to go downstairs and eat something casually at the Poirot Café.

After finishing dinner, Kogoro Mouri strolled casually around the detective agency with a toothpick in his mouth, actually paying attention to whether there were any suspicious people nearby.

The dim street lights stretched his shadow very long, and on the remaining snow in the corner were footprints left by children playing.

It was already very late. Young people who had just got off work were walking hurriedly on the street. A few drunk men were supporting each other and walking unsteadily.

Kogoro Mori had seen these people more than once. They should be residents nearby.

He looked up at the sky and it seemed to be very late, so he walked towards the detective agency.

The lights were still on in the Poirot Café, and through the glass window one could see Azusa Enomoto still working diligently. Kogoro Mori walked up the stairs to the office, stood in front of the door, and carefully observed the door lock that had just been changed.

No scratches.

Insert the key and turn the lock cylinder.

Everything went smoothly.

When he opened the door, the layout inside was the same as when he had just left. He looked up at the wall clock and didn't expect it was so late. When he was hesitating whether to call Mao Lilan, his cell phone rang.

"Dad, I'm so tired. I'll stay at Mom's place for one night and we'll meet at the pier tomorrow."

Maori Kogoro was a little surprised and asked in confusion: "Didn't you say you would come back to stay tonight?"

However, when he did not hear any response from Mouri Ran, Mouri Kogoro looked at his phone and found that the call had been hung up. He guessed that they must be tired from shopping, so he did not think much about it.

Sit on the sofa and pick up the golden ticket on the coffee table.

A cruise ship was carved on the gold that was pressed into thin paper. The boarding date was tomorrow afternoon, but Kogoro Mori felt vaguely uneasy in his heart, as if something bad had happened.

The next morning, heavy clouds made the surroundings look gray.

Kogoro Mori, who had not slept well the night before, was still lying in bed and snoring, with a few empty cans of beer thrown casually beside the bed.

Suddenly, the phone rang rapidly. Maori Kogoro, who was still asleep, reached out to touch the phone in a daze and pressed the answer button, "Hello?"

An impatient female voice came from the receiver: "The ship is about to leave, where are you now? Without tickets, Lan and I can't get on the ship! Come to Tokyo Port quickly!"

Maori Kogoro suddenly sat up from the bed, looked out the window and saw that it was already bright, thinking that he had overslept, so he immediately replied: "I'll be there right away!"

However, before Kogoro Mori could finish his words, the phone was hung up again.

Kogoro Mouri didn't think much about it. He quickly got dressed, combed his hair meticulously, opened the door and was about to go out. For some reason, he looked up at the wall clock.

That’s not right. It’s only ten o’clock now. Doesn’t the boat leave in the afternoon?

Kogoro Maori looked puzzled. He reached into his arms, took out the golden ticket, confirmed the time again, frowned slightly, and recalled carefully. He felt that there was something wrong with the woman's voice in the phone call just now. He couldn't tell where exactly, but it felt very awkward.

Not knowing what he was thinking about, Kogoro Mouri suddenly felt a chill on his spine. He quickly took out his cell phone and called back, but got a busy tone.

I wonder if Xiaolan is calling that brat Shinichi right now?

Kogoro Mouri made unreasonable guesses, as if only thinking in this way could relieve the uneasiness in his heart, but his fingers were busy all the time, dialing Kisaki Eri's number.

After a long wait, a tone indicating that no one answered the call came from the receiver.

Kogoro Mouri felt more and more uneasy and immediately called the law firm of Eri Kisaki. The call was connected quickly, but the person who answered the phone was not Eri Kisaki, but Eri Kisaki's assistant, Midori Kuriyama.

However, Kuriyama Midori told him that Attorney Hime had taken a half-month vacation and was not in the office at the moment.

Kogoro Mouri ran downstairs and stood on the street looking around. Fortunately, he quickly stopped a taxi and rushed to the apartment where Eri Kisaki lived.

However, the apartment was empty. Unprecedented fear enveloped Kogoro Mori, and he took a taxi to Tokyo Port again.

When he arrived at the port, it was almost noon. There were quite a few people gathered on the dock, including many foreigners.

The dock workers were busy loading and unloading cargo. Kogoro Mouri called Conan and Eri Kissing again, but still no one answered.

Kogoro Mouri was walking among the crowd, looking for Ran Mouri and Eri Kisaki, but he inadvertently saw the familiar light blue women's work uniform.

Following that light blue color, Maori Kogoro came to the aisle between two containers, away from the crowd. Maori Kogoro recognized at a glance that the woman in front of him was not Eri Kisaki, but the clothes she was wearing were Eri Kisaki's.

At this time, Kogoro Mouri's cell phone rang, and the number displayed was Ran Mouri.

"I'm already at the dock. Where are you?" Kogoro Mouri spoke quickly. He was so nervous that he was like a performer walking on a tightrope, with his heart beating wildly in his chest.

However, the voice coming from the other end of the phone was not Maori Ran's, but a mechanically modified voice, mixed with a harsh electric current sound, which reached Maori Kogoro's ears, "Mr. Maori, your daughter and wife are in our hands now, you can only cooperate with us."

Maori Kogoro was startled, his eyes widened, and he looked at the woman who was walking towards him. He would definitely not mistake that light blue uniform. He took a deep breath, tried to calm himself down, and asked in a deep voice: "Who are you?"

"This question is not important."

"What do you want me to do?" Kogoro Mouri clenched his fists and tried to control his emotions.

"Don't worry, this won't be a difficult task for you."

……

"Okay, that girl has entered the examination room. We'll go in later. You should know what to do." The woman holding Maori Kogoro's arm asked in a low voice, "Is there anyone here who knows you?"

Kogoro Mouri gathered his thoughts, shook his head slightly, and was worried about the situation of Xiaolan and Eri Kissing.

On the other side, Mingyue and Akai Shuichi were invited into the examination room.

The examination room was not very big, but there were more than a dozen burly men standing with their hands behind their backs, making the already small space feel even more depressing.

Shuichi Akai looked as if he wanted to keep strangers away and placed Mingyue in his protective circle.

Mingyue took out the golden ticket and handed it to the man in the tuxedo.

The man in a tuxedo bowed respectfully to take it and carefully checked the authenticity of the ticket. Akai Shuichi was led to the side, and a burly man scanned Akai Shuichi with a metal detector.

Drop drop!

The metal detector sounded an alarm.

All the burly men in the examination room were on high alert.

The burly man holding the metal detector reached into Shuichi Akai's trouser pocket and took out a lighter from his pocket.

The tuxedo man narrowed his eyes slightly, "My master should have informed me that metal objects are not allowed."

Shuichi Akai looked at the man in the tuxedo and said, "I'm a heavy smoker." After that, he seemingly casually snatched the lighter from the burly man's hand and threw it into the trash can.

However, the man in the tuxedo looked at Lei with displeasure, squatted down, picked up the lighter from the trash can, looked through it, and then squeezed it hard with his fingers.

click!

The metal casing of the lighter was crushed, and the odorless gas diffused into the air, which triggered the ventilation system to start.

Shuichi Akai had a preliminary understanding of the power of the man in the tuxedo in front of him.

Mingyue glanced at the two people confronting each other, and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly.

The man in the tuxedo took off his white gloves that were stained with liquefied petroleum gas and threw them into the trash can along with the broken lighter. He smiled and said to Akai Shuichi, "I'm sorry, I didn't control my strength well and accidentally broke your precious lighter. We will compensate you with a new one later."

"No need, it's just a lighter." Akai Shuichi still had a cold face.

Suddenly the metal detector alarm sounded again, but this time it was not from Shuichi Akai's side, but from Mingyue.

Shuichi Akai's muscles tensed and his brows furrowed. He saw that the metal detector that was sounding the alarm was pointing at Mingyue's trouser pocket.

Mingyue took his hand out of his trouser pocket.

Hey~

A silver arc passed by.

The man in the tuxedo reached out and grabbed the object thrown by Mingyue. He opened his palm and his pupils suddenly dilated. He took a deep breath and looked up at the gray-haired girl.

Mingyue sat lazily on the sofa and reached out to pick and choose from the fruit plate on the coffee table.

The burly man was about to attack, but the man in the tuxedo immediately stopped him.

The sharp-eyed Akai Shuichi saw the object in the tuxedo man's hand. It turned out to be a coin with a skull on one side and a crow on the other.

But at this moment, Shuichi Akai felt that the man in the tuxedo next to him seemed to be even more nervous than him. He felt that the air pressure in the examination room dropped rapidly. Because of this, those burly men dared not breathe. One by one, they held their breath and stood still, not daring to move.

Mingyue seemed to be unaware of it. She spat out the grape seeds in her mouth, tilted her head and said to the man in the tuxedo, "Excuse me, Mr. Kirima Soichi, have you thought of an answer for the sudden event? I'm here to keep an appointment. I wonder what fun things will happen this time?"

Kirima Soichi? The most influential gem tycoon and the owner of this cruise ship. Could it be that Mingyue's target is him? Akai Shuichi searched for information about this gem tycoon in his mind, but apart from the public information, there is little private information about this gem tycoon. It is said that he is a very low-key person.

"Please take a rest here." The man in the tuxedo said to Mingyue respectfully, then turned to Akai Shuichi and made a gesture of invitation, "Sir, please follow me here."

The burly man who was originally standing there quickly made way for a path, and a secret door slowly opened.

As expected, there was a dark room, and Akai Shuichi looked calm.

The man in the tuxedo respectfully invited Shuichi Akai to go to the dark room.

Confused, Akai Shuichi glanced at Mingyue, but Mingyue was still leaning on the sofa, eating grapes.

"Please." The man in the tuxedo had a respectful smile on his face.

After looking around, Shuichi Akai walked towards the dark room with his long legs.

However, this dark room seemed to have a different world. There were rows of closed closets with unknown people hiding inside. Just as Akai Shuichi was observing the surroundings, several pretty bunny girls surrounded him.

"Please change your clothes here, sir." A bunny girl came over with a tray containing towels and underwear.

Akai Shuichi saw the shower room and dressing room not far away and sneered, "Do you think I'm dirty?"

The bunny girl quickly lowered her head, "My lord, you misunderstood. Please let us help you change your clothes."

The other party is so calculating! He wants to check if there are any dangerous items on his body by changing clothes. After all, some things cannot be detected by metal detectors. Akai Shuichi sighed in his heart, but also confirmed that something must happen on this cruise ship.

His cold eyes stopped the bunny girls from approaching him, but he couldn't stop them from looking at him.

He couldn't help but sneer, thinking that these seemingly weak bunny girls were not simple characters. Would Mingyue be in the same situation as he was now?

Shuichi Akai reached out to take the tray and opened the closet door beside him. What caught his eyes were women's clothes of various colors. The veins on his forehead suddenly popped out.

"Sir, here are men's clothes." Several bunny girls quickly opened the wardrobe behind them, and different styles of men's clothes appeared in front of Akai Shuichi. The leading bunny girl continued, "Sir, we will keep the clothes you changed out of properly and return them to you after you arrive safely at your destination. As for the clothes you chose, you don't have to return them to us."

Shuichi Akai had a gloomy face. He picked up a few pieces of clothes and went into the changing room. He checked the clothes inside and out. When he found that they were just ordinary clothes, he couldn't help but frowned slightly.

Could it be that he was going to do something to Mingyue? Akai Shuichi was not sure what would happen if Mingyue's anklet was discovered when she was changing clothes, so he had to speed up the process of changing clothes.

When Shuichi Akai walked out of the locker room door, what caught his eye were hats of various colors and styles. He took a deep breath, took off the sewing hat on his head, picked up a similar hat and walked out of the dark room.

At this time, another secret door was opened, and an older man, also wearing a tuxedo and white gloves, walked into the small examination room with steady steps.

The older man first bowed slightly to Mingyue and said, "Dear lady, I wish you a pleasant trip on the cruise." After that, he handed two masks to Akai Shuichi and Mingyue.

"Please both guests please wear masks."

Mingyue wore a gray rabbit mask, while Shuichi Akai held a black wolf mask.

A door leading to the Augus Cruise Ship is slowly opening...

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Next chapter preview: The cruise ship heading to the ocean is like an isolated island. What secrets are hidden in the dark sea? Can Maori Kogoro hear the voices of his daughter and wife?