When she woke up the next morning, Nanasheng looked at the room in front of her in a daze, and it took several seconds to fully wake up.
This is zero flats.
She reacted, endured the headache and fell back on the bed, pulled the quilt up, and suddenly froze.
This is zero apartment!
She carefully opened a corner and looked at herself in the bed.
Still wearing yesterday's outfit, Jiang Gu Ling seemed to help her wipe her face with a hot towel before going to bed, and then...
Nana Sheng twisted her body and turned to the other side, and saw that the bedding on the other half of the bed beside her was flat, and the pillows were fluffy and soft, as if there was no trace of being slept on.
Nana got up a little disappointed.
There was a ready breakfast on the dining table, the milk in the glass was still warm, but there was no one in the room.She just made a phone call.
"Hello, are you up?" After two rings, he was picked up.
"Zero, where are you?" Nanasheng asked while walking to the bathroom. When passing by the sofa, he saw the folded blanket on it and complained softly, "Why didn't you wake me up before you left?"
"Sorry, I have something to do at the moment." The sound of closing the car door came from Jiang Gu Ling, "I thought you would sleep a little longer. Breakfast is on the table, and there are new toothbrushes and towels on the sink."
Nanasheng went to the bathroom and saw a toothbrush that had just been opened.It's a pair with Fugu Rei's, but the color is changed.
Nanasheng was coaxed, and happily picked it up, "I see, I forgive you."
Jiang Gu Ling smiled lightly over there.
The two talked a few more words before hanging up the phone.
When Nana was sitting at the dining table eating breakfast, he always felt that he had forgotten something.
She swallowed the last sip of milk, and when she got up to clean up the dishes, the mobile phone on the table suddenly rang.
Looking at Mao Lilan on the caller ID, Nanasheng was stunned for half a second, then suddenly remembered that he had made an appointment with Lan and Yuanzi last night to go shopping together today.
Originally, she just wanted to send a message to ask if there were any good shopping malls nearby, but Xiaolan enthusiastically suggested that she would go with her. Nanasheng was anxious to arrange things before Fugu Ling came back last night. So I agreed without even thinking about it.
So much happened afterward... plus a hangover, she woke up and put it behind her.
"Hey, are you coming soon?" Nanasheng obviously lacked confidence when he answered the phone, "Sorry, I drank too much yesterday and overslept. Wait for me for 10 minutes."
While talking, she quickly took the keys, went out and ran back to her apartment to change clothes.
"I'll take a taxi there."
"Ah, don't worry, it was because my father was not good last night. Actually, I called to ask the teacher about you... Ah, Yuanzi!" Xiaolan just got halfway through talking, when Yuanzi couldn't wait to take the phone over .
After a burst of noise, the person who answered the phone changed from Mao Lilan to Suzuki Sonoko.The latter voice couldn't hide the joy: "We just want to ask, teacher, are you interested in Kaitou Kidd?"
When Nana got off the taxi, he caught sight of Ran and Sonoko standing at the entrance of the shopping street.
Unexpectedly, the boy detective team was also there.
"Teacher Qihai! Here!" Several people saw her at the same time and waved at her.
Sonoko was the first to lean over affectionately, "Teacher, did Mr. Amuro look for you yesterday? I heard from Lan that it was Mr. Okiya who sent the uncle back, so Mr. Amuro must have won!"
"What won't you win..."
There was no competition.
Nana knew that Sonoko was definitely involved in yesterday's incident. Seeing that the children of the detective team had pricked up their ears curiously, only Huiyuan Ai opened her half-moon eyes with a clear face, she was a little helpless Changed the subject quickly: "Why did you mention Kaitou Kidd on the phone just now?"
"I know! Grandpa Jiroji Suzuki sent another challenge letter to Kidd!" Ayumi raised her hand high as if answering a question in class, looking quite cute, "Kidd also replied with a notice letter , Conan and Uncle Maori reasoned that Kidd would appear in the exhibition hall on the top floor of the commercial building nearby at nine o'clock tonight."
Nanasheng kept bending over while listening to her speech, and then straightened up: "Kidd... I saw it in the news, I remember Conan is still called Kidd's nemesis."
No wonder Edogawa Conan will follow today.
"Conan is very powerful, but it's all thanks to the existence of our detective team." Yuantai interjected.
Mitsuhiko warmly extended the invitation: "So teacher, are you going to visit Kidd with us at nine o'clock tonight?"
Suzuki Sonoko: "Teacher, you can come with me, otherwise it would be boring for me and Lan to take these little kids together. I have tickets for the exhibition hall given to me by Uncle Jirokichi. I guarantee that I can get the best ticket." viewing seats."
tonight?
Nana hesitated for a moment, then smiled apologetically, "Maybe not tonight."
At midnight tonight, she still wants to celebrate Jiang Guling's birthday.
Although tomorrow is fine, Nanasheng still insists that celebrating him at 3:21 on March 0 seems to be more ritualistic.
Sonoko tried a few words of persuasion, but Nanasheng seemed gentle but firmly refused.
Seeing that she couldn't be persuaded, Yuanzi had no choice but to give up in disappointment.
"By the way, teacher, you said yesterday that you wanted to choose a gift for a friend, right? Let's go to the gift shop in that area first." Mao Lilan said.
While the few people were chatting, Conan Edogawa kept silent, with his hands in his pockets, staring absently at the electrical appliance store next to him.
There are several LCD TVs in the window of the electrical appliance store, and they are scrolling the morning news from different TV stations.
But if you look closely, it seems that most of them are broadcasting the same news.
[A new victim has appeared!The Metropolitan Police Department's press conference is being broadcast live. 】
[Serial killers appear in Tokyo, the target is JK! 】
[Latest news: The identity of the abandoned female body found by the river this morning has been confirmed...]
"Conan, did you follow because you were worried about Xiaolan and Sonoko?" Nanasheng didn't know when she squatted down beside him, and said softly.
Conan Edogawa was taken aback. He recovered from the news and tried to pretend to be stupid: "Mr. Nanami, what are you talking about?"
Nana sighed inwardly.Because of her status as a member of the organization, Edogawa Conan seems to still not fully trust her.
"After all, if you came out because of the Kaitou Kidd, you should go to the exhibition hall to see the police officers from the second search section to make arrangements. There is no need to go shopping with us."
Nanasheng then looked up at the news: "I've also heard about this case. Two people have died this month, right? All of them are female high school students. But I haven't had time to watch the news this morning..."
"It's three people." Hui Yuanai walked over and explained to her, "A morning runner found an abandoned woman's body at the bottom of the bridge by the embankment this morning. It is said that she was naked when she found it." , and there are still bruises and scratches left by a knife on his body. The police have confirmed the identity of the deceased, and it is Xiaolin Kui, a student from Class A of Xinqiao High School who disappeared the day before yesterday."
Nanasheng hissed softly, "The method is so bad."
"Well, and the interval between the first case and the second case was ten days, and the interval between the second case and the third case was less than a week. Now that the murderer has succeeded three times, I'm afraid it will become more and more arrogant..."
"This means that the fourth case is likely to happen soon." Edogawa Conan looked gloomy, and the detective's natural sense of justice made him angry, "This bastard."
Nana looked at the bustling shopping street in front of him.
Today is a working day, occasionally office workers in suits pass by in a hurry, and most of the rest are students like Mao Lilan and the others who are on spring break.
Because there are many cheap and fashionable shops on this shopping street, which are especially popular among JK, and Kaitou Kidd has announced the action around here in the evening, so it seems that there are especially many female students here.
The youthful faces are immature even with light makeup.
From the perspective of the serial killer, this is probably the best hunting ground.
Nana faintly felt the same worries as Edogawa Conan.
A morning passed in a blink of an eye.
Headed by Yuanzi, several people had a great time shopping. It was after noon that Mrs. Yuan clutched her stomach and said that she was hungry, and they realized that it was time to have lunch.
"Lan, you go to the restaurant to reserve a seat first. There may be a queue at this point, just let the children sit on the chairs to rest, and I will come back to you later." Seeing that they were going to eat, Nana Sheng breathed a sigh of relief, busy talking.
She didn't want to reveal that she was going to buy gifts for Jiang Gu Ling, and she was afraid of being pestered by the Boy Detectives to ask questions, so she spent all morning shopping with them——
It took nearly an hour and a half to dawdle in the video game city alone, but Nanasheng didn't go to any of the shops he wanted to go to.
Along the way, she memorized quite a few suitable shops, and she also had a rough plan for the gifts she was going to give, and she just planned to take advantage of this time to buy the gifts herself.
"Okay..." Mao Lilan nodded, "I will send you a message when we are in line."
"Sister Xiaolan, I suddenly remembered that I forgot something in the video game city, I'll go get it!"
Conan obediently accompanied him for a whole morning, and he was a little impatient.He took out his familiar coquettish skills, and interjected in a childlike voice, "Just wait in this restaurant, I'll be right back."
Nanasheng guessed that he probably wanted to take the opportunity to do some research around here, so without saying anything, he and Conan walked out of the area where the restaurant was located, and parted ways tacitly.
Strangely, after 10 minutes passed, she still did not receive any contact from Mao Lilan.
When Nanasheng took the paper bag from the clerk of the men's clothing store, she thought about it carefully: just before she left, she glanced back. She didn't remember which store had a long queue. Why did she wait for so long?
Nanasheng went out from the store and was about to call to inquire about the situation when he first received a call from Huihara Ai.
When she picked up the phone, she bypassed several people who were feeding pigeons, "Hello? Which store did you go to? Why are you so..."
"Don't ask, come back soon!" Hui Yuanai interrupted her hastily, "Mao Lilan is gone!"
Nanasheng paused, "Huh?"
Five minutes later, Nanasheng stood at the door of the restaurant, struggling to extract what happened from the panic-stricken narration of Suzuki Sonoko and several children.
"So you guys are saying... When I was in line just now, because Yuan was too hungry. So Xiaolan decided to help you buy a takoyaki to fill your stomach. I didn't expect that she never came back after she left. ?”
"Yes! The shop that sells takoyaki is clearly a 2-minute walk when you turn right when you go out here, but Miss Xiaolan didn't come back after 10 minutes!" Mitsuhiko clenched his fists and anxiously added details.
Nana nodded to show that she knew: "So Sonoko went to find someone, but the staff at the takoyaki shop said she had already left."
"Yes..." Yuanzi already had tears in his eyes, "I tried to call Lan, but I was hung up after one ring, and the phone was turned off when I called again."
Hearing this, Nanasheng's expression turned ugly, she looked around, "Where's Conan?"
"Edogawa just ran to that exhibition hall to see the preparations of the Nakamori Police Department, and they are on their way back now." Haibara Ai said while clutching the phone.
With Conan's short legs, I don't know how long it will take to run back.Nanasheng didn't have time to wait for him, so he turned around and walked in the direction of the takoyaki shop, "Sonoko, stay here and take care of the children. If Xiaolan comes back, don't let her lose us. I'll go out and see the situation, wait Let Conan come to me when he comes back...I think he should know where to find me."
"Why does Conan know? Teacher, wait, I'd better go with you..."
Sonoko didn't understand yet, and was anxious to go out with her, but Nanasheng changed hands and stuffed a white paper bag into her arms.
"Because it's just a very simple reasoning, and a little detective can easily come up with the answer." Nanasheng winked at her and said softly, "But I don't have time to explain so much now, you stay here and help I'll take care of this bag, okay?"
Nana came out of the dining area where the restaurant was located, turned right and walked for a while.Sure enough, as Mitsuhiko and the others said, they immediately found the shop selling takoyaki.
The store is very small, stuck between two [-]-yuan stores, covering an area of at most two square meters.There are not many customers, and there is only one clerk.
"The girl with long black hair? Why are you asking again. Didn't I say that she left long ago."
After Nanasheng asked Mao Lilan's whereabouts, the clerk lazily replied, "Don't tell me that such a big person can get lost in this kind of place."
He joked with a playful smile, and at the same time pointed to the bustling shopping street in front of him, "There is only one main road here, and people come and go during the holidays. If something happens on the street, it will definitely cause commotion... Hey, you Where to go?"
Nanasheng was too lazy to listen to his nonsense, and after confirming that he had never seen Mao Lilan again after that, he turned around and walked back in the direction of the dining area.
Only she walked more slowly this time.
The clerk's words were a bit harsh, but he was right.
It is impossible for Mao Lilan to get lost on this road.She still has the takoyaki she bought for the children in her hand, and she won't take long detours for no reason.
Even if something happened suddenly, there should be time to go back and talk to Yuanzi and the others.It's only 2 minutes away after all.
Considering Mao Lilan's skills, no one should be able to forcibly abduct her...
Then the only possibility is that for some reason, she voluntarily left the main road of this crowded shopping street and disappeared in a place where pedestrians could not see.
The reason for this should be very sudden, because she didn't have time to go back and hand the freshly baked takoyaki to the children while it was hot, and at the same time greet Sonoko and the others before leaving.
But it shouldn't be a big deal, so Mao Lilan had the idea that it would be resolved soon.So she didn't even think of sending a text message to Yuanzi in advance.
Nanasheng quickly considered several possibilities, and stopped suddenly at a certain moment.
She turned her head and looked into a narrow and dark alley next to her.
The alley looks quite deep, and there is a turn at the end, and I don't know where it leads to the pedestrian street.The width is very narrow, and half of it is occupied by garbage cans stacked together.
There was some rubbish scattered in front of the trash can, and a hunchbacked sanitation worker was bending over and cleaning it with difficulty.
When Nanasheng approached, he heard him complaining: "Who is so unqualified to overturn the trash can and spill the trash all over the floor..."
Nanasheng's heart tightened, and he instantly understood the reason.
Nearly half an hour had passed since Mao Lilan disappeared, and Nanasheng also became anxious. Her eyes fell on the end of the alley, and she walked quickly in that direction.
Just as she was about to pass by the sanitation worker, she suddenly caught a glimpse of the sanitation worker stretching out his hand towards her waist.
Nanasheng was startled, turned his waist sharply to avoid the blow, and then without hesitation turned his legs and kicked him hard at the neck.
The man who was still moving slowly just now reacted quickly, retracting his hand and making a blocking motion.
When Nanasheng saw the black object in the opponent's hand, his heart suddenly felt cold.
It was too late when she tried to stop.
There was a tiny crackling sound in the dark alley, accompanied by a flash of blue lightning.
Nanasheng swayed, and before she completely lost consciousness, she saw the sanitation worker grinning at her, revealing a mouthful of yellowed and blackened teeth from smoking.
"Who is it?"
He picked up what he said to himself when he was cleaning alone just now.Her voice was hoarse, and she even lowered her voice on purpose, laughing strangely in her ear.
"It's me……"
When Nana woke up, her head hurt like it was about to burst.
It was as if the scene when he woke up in Furui Ling's bed a few hours ago reappeared.It's just that this time it's not just a hangover, but also the effects of being knocked out.The two phases superimposed, and the headache was even worse than before.
Nanasheng thought of the man's smiling face just now, and almost didn't spit it out. He sat on the spot for a few seconds before barely supporting himself to stand up.
As soon as he moved, the sound of the iron chain being dragged came from behind him.
She looked back at her hands that were handcuffed behind her back and the heavy iron chains connected with the handcuffs, and clicked softly.
With such thorough preparations, it seems that guy planned to tie two people back this time from the very beginning.
The serial killer's appetite is indeed getting bigger and bigger, but it's not just reflected in the shorter and shorter intervals between actions.By the time he struck for the fourth time, even a single prey could no longer satisfy him.
But Nanasheng was not unaware of this.
Serial killers generally follow a certain pattern of committing crimes. Previously, his targets were all female high school students.
So Nana didn't even think about the possibility that he would become a target at all, and just wanted to let Sonoko stay where he was.
It's just that after thousands of calculations, the guy has lame eyes.
Nana felt quite annoyed by this.
As a mature social person, and a social person who has been quite sensitive to age issues due to certain factors recently, being mistaken for a high school student really hit her a bit.
It can't be because she looks too small, right?
"Where is this place..." In the shadow in front of him, the motionless figure who had been curled up since just now suddenly moved, followed by a groan.
Nanasheng originally wanted to call her, but seeing that she had woken up by herself, he said softly, "Xiao Lan?"
"Old Qihai?"
"Shh..."
Mao Lilan woke up suddenly, subconsciously wanted to call her, but was interrupted by Nanasheng.
"Didn't you say it all, just call me Akari." Nanasheng's eyes were bright in the dim room, staring at Mao Lilan without blinking, "You are still so polite after being a classmate for so long, I will Very sad."
Mao Lilan opened his eyes wide, looking straight at Nanasheng.
The latter's facial muscles were tense, and when he heard Mao Lilan hesitantly and tentatively calling out Mingli, he quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
smart kid.
After Mao Lilan saw Qihai Mingli nodded slightly to her, she finally confirmed that she had understood correctly: Teacher Qihai didn't want to reveal that she was a teacher, but why?
She couldn't figure it out, but this question didn't seem that important compared to the current situation.
Mao Lilan turned to look around.
The room was about the size of a classroom, and the decoration looked like an empty warehouse, with a musty smell of decay.
There is no lighting facility inside, and most of the space a little farther away is hidden in the vague darkness, which makes it difficult to see clearly and looks extremely depressing.
The only source of light came from a small window above their heads.It wasn't even big enough for a small child to get in and out, and there were iron bars around the outside, so there was no way to get out from there.
Mao Lilan trembled, forced herself to calm down, and turned to look at Nanasheng who barely adjusted his posture and sat on the spot with his knees bent: "Seven...uh, Mingli, why are we here?"
"Have you watched the news recently? I'm afraid we may have met the serial killer who specifically targeted female high school students."
Nanasheng explained calmly, while wrapping his hands behind his back with unimaginable flexibility, at the same time he accentuated the word "female high school student", and explained to Mao Lilan what she just said the behavior of.
With Nanami Akari's character, in this environment, he should be so flustered that he would cry.But Nanasheng can't care about maintaining the character design at the moment.
Nanasheng had just glanced through the small window, and she probably spent longer in a coma than she estimated.Judging from the sky outside, the sun was almost setting.
After dark, the warehouse will be darker, and it will be more inconvenient to do anything at that time, she must act before then.
What's more, she still has important things to do at midnight tonight.
After Nanasheng moved his hands to the front, his activities were much more convenient than before, and his posture was not so awkward.She got up again dragging the heavy iron chain, walked to the window step by step, and estimated——
It was okay, the chain was barely long enough for her to reach the window.
She raised her hands, and suddenly felt that the heavy burden on her wrists was relieved a lot.
Looking down, she realized that Mao Lilan had twisted her body and supported part of the weight of the iron chain for her with difficulty.
"Thank you..." Nanasheng softened his heart.
"Mingli, did you get caught here because I was implicated?" Mao Lilan seemed to have recalled what happened just now, her voice was tainted with a weak cry, and she had to accept it with difficulty. "I didn't think it was a trap either... When I was passing by, I just saw him accidentally knock over the trash can, so I thought of going over to help him..."
When she just woke up and found that Mao Lilan didn't shed tears when she was kidnapped, but now she started crying because she realized that she might have implicated Nanami Akari.
Nanasheng lowered his hands and quickly stroked Mao Lilan's head with his handcuffed hands.
"What's wrong with being kind?" She knelt down and lowered her voice extremely low, "As a teacher, I'm very happy to have a student like you."
Mao Lilan stared at her blankly.
"Don't worry, we'll be fine."
Nanasheng straightened up again, his eyes fell outside the window, but his heart felt a little heavy.
That man already knew that she was very skilled, and he would be fully prepared when he did it again, fearing that it would not be so easy to resist.
And at least four hours have passed since they were tied up, which shows that Conan still failed to catch up in the first place.
I missed the opportunity to track down this prisoner at the beginning, and I am afraid that the only way to find their whereabouts is to start with surveillance and the like.
That would take a lot of time.
The deceased Xiao Linkui who was discovered this morning disappeared the day before yesterday, and the time interval between the disappearance of the two deceased and the discovery of the bodies seems to be short... There is not much time left for them.
Nanasheng is not sure whether there is a bug or surveillance installed here.So I dare not let Mao Lilan reveal that she is not a high school student.
If the murderer really only kills high school girls.Once he finds out Nanasheng's real age, the only target he can attack here is Mao Lilan.
But even so, there was no delay.We must find a way as soon as possible.
Nana had a headache.
She racked her brains to think, while looking at the small window for the fourth time, then her eyes froze.
She suddenly realized something was wrong.
Pigeons again...
This is the second time she has seen white doves hovering in the sky through that window...
If you think about it this way, it seems that she can always see pigeons today.When I came out of the men's clothing store at noon, a group of people were feeding a white pigeon by the side of the road.
Was that pigeon following her?
Suddenly, Nanasheng's mind appeared in the mind of the extremely flamboyant white figure that he often saw on TV, his brows relaxed, and he had a faint guess in his heart.
At the same time, in another secret meeting room in Tokyo, Rei Fuguya, who had left early in the morning due to urgent matters, put down a thick stack of documents in his hand.
"Mr. Fuguya, these are all the materials about this serial murder case." Kazami Yu also kept quiet by the side while he was reading the materials, and then he said, "Although it has not been announced to the public, this The name of a member of parliament was engraved on all three corpses. That's why the Ministry of Public Security intervened urgently.
I didn't want to trouble you, Mr. Jiang Gu, but this murderer acted too arrogantly, and he has succeeded three times now, and public opinion is raging.If the lettering is leaked out, I'm afraid it will cause a big public commotion..."
Fugu Ling looked down at the documents in front of him, lost in thought, and at this moment Kazami's cell phone rang.
"It's a call from a colleague from the First Search Section." He picked it up in a hurry, his expression changed after he said a few words, and he slapped the table and stood up.
"Just received a report, and there is a new missing person!" Kazami Yuya hurriedly picked up the coat that was on the side and put it on, and then covered the microphone and said, "Mr. Furuya, you should also know the missing person. The detective's daughter, Mao Lilan..."
Jiang Gu Ling got up abruptly after hearing half of it.With his hand on the doorknob of the meeting room, he heard Kazami Yuya who was still on the phone behind him muttering.
"You said there are two missing persons this time? Another is Mao Lilan's high school English teacher? Wait a minute, isn't that guy only targeting female high school students...Mr. Jianggu, why don't you leave?"
Rei Fuguya stopped suddenly at the door of the meeting room, Kazami Yuya almost bumped into him, and stopped quickly in fright.
He grabbed the phone, stared blankly at his boss turning his head, and asked every word with no expression on his face.
"You just said, who is the other one?"
This is zero flats.
She reacted, endured the headache and fell back on the bed, pulled the quilt up, and suddenly froze.
This is zero apartment!
She carefully opened a corner and looked at herself in the bed.
Still wearing yesterday's outfit, Jiang Gu Ling seemed to help her wipe her face with a hot towel before going to bed, and then...
Nana Sheng twisted her body and turned to the other side, and saw that the bedding on the other half of the bed beside her was flat, and the pillows were fluffy and soft, as if there was no trace of being slept on.
Nana got up a little disappointed.
There was a ready breakfast on the dining table, the milk in the glass was still warm, but there was no one in the room.She just made a phone call.
"Hello, are you up?" After two rings, he was picked up.
"Zero, where are you?" Nanasheng asked while walking to the bathroom. When passing by the sofa, he saw the folded blanket on it and complained softly, "Why didn't you wake me up before you left?"
"Sorry, I have something to do at the moment." The sound of closing the car door came from Jiang Gu Ling, "I thought you would sleep a little longer. Breakfast is on the table, and there are new toothbrushes and towels on the sink."
Nanasheng went to the bathroom and saw a toothbrush that had just been opened.It's a pair with Fugu Rei's, but the color is changed.
Nanasheng was coaxed, and happily picked it up, "I see, I forgive you."
Jiang Gu Ling smiled lightly over there.
The two talked a few more words before hanging up the phone.
When Nana was sitting at the dining table eating breakfast, he always felt that he had forgotten something.
She swallowed the last sip of milk, and when she got up to clean up the dishes, the mobile phone on the table suddenly rang.
Looking at Mao Lilan on the caller ID, Nanasheng was stunned for half a second, then suddenly remembered that he had made an appointment with Lan and Yuanzi last night to go shopping together today.
Originally, she just wanted to send a message to ask if there were any good shopping malls nearby, but Xiaolan enthusiastically suggested that she would go with her. Nanasheng was anxious to arrange things before Fugu Ling came back last night. So I agreed without even thinking about it.
So much happened afterward... plus a hangover, she woke up and put it behind her.
"Hey, are you coming soon?" Nanasheng obviously lacked confidence when he answered the phone, "Sorry, I drank too much yesterday and overslept. Wait for me for 10 minutes."
While talking, she quickly took the keys, went out and ran back to her apartment to change clothes.
"I'll take a taxi there."
"Ah, don't worry, it was because my father was not good last night. Actually, I called to ask the teacher about you... Ah, Yuanzi!" Xiaolan just got halfway through talking, when Yuanzi couldn't wait to take the phone over .
After a burst of noise, the person who answered the phone changed from Mao Lilan to Suzuki Sonoko.The latter voice couldn't hide the joy: "We just want to ask, teacher, are you interested in Kaitou Kidd?"
When Nana got off the taxi, he caught sight of Ran and Sonoko standing at the entrance of the shopping street.
Unexpectedly, the boy detective team was also there.
"Teacher Qihai! Here!" Several people saw her at the same time and waved at her.
Sonoko was the first to lean over affectionately, "Teacher, did Mr. Amuro look for you yesterday? I heard from Lan that it was Mr. Okiya who sent the uncle back, so Mr. Amuro must have won!"
"What won't you win..."
There was no competition.
Nana knew that Sonoko was definitely involved in yesterday's incident. Seeing that the children of the detective team had pricked up their ears curiously, only Huiyuan Ai opened her half-moon eyes with a clear face, she was a little helpless Changed the subject quickly: "Why did you mention Kaitou Kidd on the phone just now?"
"I know! Grandpa Jiroji Suzuki sent another challenge letter to Kidd!" Ayumi raised her hand high as if answering a question in class, looking quite cute, "Kidd also replied with a notice letter , Conan and Uncle Maori reasoned that Kidd would appear in the exhibition hall on the top floor of the commercial building nearby at nine o'clock tonight."
Nanasheng kept bending over while listening to her speech, and then straightened up: "Kidd... I saw it in the news, I remember Conan is still called Kidd's nemesis."
No wonder Edogawa Conan will follow today.
"Conan is very powerful, but it's all thanks to the existence of our detective team." Yuantai interjected.
Mitsuhiko warmly extended the invitation: "So teacher, are you going to visit Kidd with us at nine o'clock tonight?"
Suzuki Sonoko: "Teacher, you can come with me, otherwise it would be boring for me and Lan to take these little kids together. I have tickets for the exhibition hall given to me by Uncle Jirokichi. I guarantee that I can get the best ticket." viewing seats."
tonight?
Nana hesitated for a moment, then smiled apologetically, "Maybe not tonight."
At midnight tonight, she still wants to celebrate Jiang Guling's birthday.
Although tomorrow is fine, Nanasheng still insists that celebrating him at 3:21 on March 0 seems to be more ritualistic.
Sonoko tried a few words of persuasion, but Nanasheng seemed gentle but firmly refused.
Seeing that she couldn't be persuaded, Yuanzi had no choice but to give up in disappointment.
"By the way, teacher, you said yesterday that you wanted to choose a gift for a friend, right? Let's go to the gift shop in that area first." Mao Lilan said.
While the few people were chatting, Conan Edogawa kept silent, with his hands in his pockets, staring absently at the electrical appliance store next to him.
There are several LCD TVs in the window of the electrical appliance store, and they are scrolling the morning news from different TV stations.
But if you look closely, it seems that most of them are broadcasting the same news.
[A new victim has appeared!The Metropolitan Police Department's press conference is being broadcast live. 】
[Serial killers appear in Tokyo, the target is JK! 】
[Latest news: The identity of the abandoned female body found by the river this morning has been confirmed...]
"Conan, did you follow because you were worried about Xiaolan and Sonoko?" Nanasheng didn't know when she squatted down beside him, and said softly.
Conan Edogawa was taken aback. He recovered from the news and tried to pretend to be stupid: "Mr. Nanami, what are you talking about?"
Nana sighed inwardly.Because of her status as a member of the organization, Edogawa Conan seems to still not fully trust her.
"After all, if you came out because of the Kaitou Kidd, you should go to the exhibition hall to see the police officers from the second search section to make arrangements. There is no need to go shopping with us."
Nanasheng then looked up at the news: "I've also heard about this case. Two people have died this month, right? All of them are female high school students. But I haven't had time to watch the news this morning..."
"It's three people." Hui Yuanai walked over and explained to her, "A morning runner found an abandoned woman's body at the bottom of the bridge by the embankment this morning. It is said that she was naked when she found it." , and there are still bruises and scratches left by a knife on his body. The police have confirmed the identity of the deceased, and it is Xiaolin Kui, a student from Class A of Xinqiao High School who disappeared the day before yesterday."
Nanasheng hissed softly, "The method is so bad."
"Well, and the interval between the first case and the second case was ten days, and the interval between the second case and the third case was less than a week. Now that the murderer has succeeded three times, I'm afraid it will become more and more arrogant..."
"This means that the fourth case is likely to happen soon." Edogawa Conan looked gloomy, and the detective's natural sense of justice made him angry, "This bastard."
Nana looked at the bustling shopping street in front of him.
Today is a working day, occasionally office workers in suits pass by in a hurry, and most of the rest are students like Mao Lilan and the others who are on spring break.
Because there are many cheap and fashionable shops on this shopping street, which are especially popular among JK, and Kaitou Kidd has announced the action around here in the evening, so it seems that there are especially many female students here.
The youthful faces are immature even with light makeup.
From the perspective of the serial killer, this is probably the best hunting ground.
Nana faintly felt the same worries as Edogawa Conan.
A morning passed in a blink of an eye.
Headed by Yuanzi, several people had a great time shopping. It was after noon that Mrs. Yuan clutched her stomach and said that she was hungry, and they realized that it was time to have lunch.
"Lan, you go to the restaurant to reserve a seat first. There may be a queue at this point, just let the children sit on the chairs to rest, and I will come back to you later." Seeing that they were going to eat, Nana Sheng breathed a sigh of relief, busy talking.
She didn't want to reveal that she was going to buy gifts for Jiang Gu Ling, and she was afraid of being pestered by the Boy Detectives to ask questions, so she spent all morning shopping with them——
It took nearly an hour and a half to dawdle in the video game city alone, but Nanasheng didn't go to any of the shops he wanted to go to.
Along the way, she memorized quite a few suitable shops, and she also had a rough plan for the gifts she was going to give, and she just planned to take advantage of this time to buy the gifts herself.
"Okay..." Mao Lilan nodded, "I will send you a message when we are in line."
"Sister Xiaolan, I suddenly remembered that I forgot something in the video game city, I'll go get it!"
Conan obediently accompanied him for a whole morning, and he was a little impatient.He took out his familiar coquettish skills, and interjected in a childlike voice, "Just wait in this restaurant, I'll be right back."
Nanasheng guessed that he probably wanted to take the opportunity to do some research around here, so without saying anything, he and Conan walked out of the area where the restaurant was located, and parted ways tacitly.
Strangely, after 10 minutes passed, she still did not receive any contact from Mao Lilan.
When Nanasheng took the paper bag from the clerk of the men's clothing store, she thought about it carefully: just before she left, she glanced back. She didn't remember which store had a long queue. Why did she wait for so long?
Nanasheng went out from the store and was about to call to inquire about the situation when he first received a call from Huihara Ai.
When she picked up the phone, she bypassed several people who were feeding pigeons, "Hello? Which store did you go to? Why are you so..."
"Don't ask, come back soon!" Hui Yuanai interrupted her hastily, "Mao Lilan is gone!"
Nanasheng paused, "Huh?"
Five minutes later, Nanasheng stood at the door of the restaurant, struggling to extract what happened from the panic-stricken narration of Suzuki Sonoko and several children.
"So you guys are saying... When I was in line just now, because Yuan was too hungry. So Xiaolan decided to help you buy a takoyaki to fill your stomach. I didn't expect that she never came back after she left. ?”
"Yes! The shop that sells takoyaki is clearly a 2-minute walk when you turn right when you go out here, but Miss Xiaolan didn't come back after 10 minutes!" Mitsuhiko clenched his fists and anxiously added details.
Nana nodded to show that she knew: "So Sonoko went to find someone, but the staff at the takoyaki shop said she had already left."
"Yes..." Yuanzi already had tears in his eyes, "I tried to call Lan, but I was hung up after one ring, and the phone was turned off when I called again."
Hearing this, Nanasheng's expression turned ugly, she looked around, "Where's Conan?"
"Edogawa just ran to that exhibition hall to see the preparations of the Nakamori Police Department, and they are on their way back now." Haibara Ai said while clutching the phone.
With Conan's short legs, I don't know how long it will take to run back.Nanasheng didn't have time to wait for him, so he turned around and walked in the direction of the takoyaki shop, "Sonoko, stay here and take care of the children. If Xiaolan comes back, don't let her lose us. I'll go out and see the situation, wait Let Conan come to me when he comes back...I think he should know where to find me."
"Why does Conan know? Teacher, wait, I'd better go with you..."
Sonoko didn't understand yet, and was anxious to go out with her, but Nanasheng changed hands and stuffed a white paper bag into her arms.
"Because it's just a very simple reasoning, and a little detective can easily come up with the answer." Nanasheng winked at her and said softly, "But I don't have time to explain so much now, you stay here and help I'll take care of this bag, okay?"
Nana came out of the dining area where the restaurant was located, turned right and walked for a while.Sure enough, as Mitsuhiko and the others said, they immediately found the shop selling takoyaki.
The store is very small, stuck between two [-]-yuan stores, covering an area of at most two square meters.There are not many customers, and there is only one clerk.
"The girl with long black hair? Why are you asking again. Didn't I say that she left long ago."
After Nanasheng asked Mao Lilan's whereabouts, the clerk lazily replied, "Don't tell me that such a big person can get lost in this kind of place."
He joked with a playful smile, and at the same time pointed to the bustling shopping street in front of him, "There is only one main road here, and people come and go during the holidays. If something happens on the street, it will definitely cause commotion... Hey, you Where to go?"
Nanasheng was too lazy to listen to his nonsense, and after confirming that he had never seen Mao Lilan again after that, he turned around and walked back in the direction of the dining area.
Only she walked more slowly this time.
The clerk's words were a bit harsh, but he was right.
It is impossible for Mao Lilan to get lost on this road.She still has the takoyaki she bought for the children in her hand, and she won't take long detours for no reason.
Even if something happened suddenly, there should be time to go back and talk to Yuanzi and the others.It's only 2 minutes away after all.
Considering Mao Lilan's skills, no one should be able to forcibly abduct her...
Then the only possibility is that for some reason, she voluntarily left the main road of this crowded shopping street and disappeared in a place where pedestrians could not see.
The reason for this should be very sudden, because she didn't have time to go back and hand the freshly baked takoyaki to the children while it was hot, and at the same time greet Sonoko and the others before leaving.
But it shouldn't be a big deal, so Mao Lilan had the idea that it would be resolved soon.So she didn't even think of sending a text message to Yuanzi in advance.
Nanasheng quickly considered several possibilities, and stopped suddenly at a certain moment.
She turned her head and looked into a narrow and dark alley next to her.
The alley looks quite deep, and there is a turn at the end, and I don't know where it leads to the pedestrian street.The width is very narrow, and half of it is occupied by garbage cans stacked together.
There was some rubbish scattered in front of the trash can, and a hunchbacked sanitation worker was bending over and cleaning it with difficulty.
When Nanasheng approached, he heard him complaining: "Who is so unqualified to overturn the trash can and spill the trash all over the floor..."
Nanasheng's heart tightened, and he instantly understood the reason.
Nearly half an hour had passed since Mao Lilan disappeared, and Nanasheng also became anxious. Her eyes fell on the end of the alley, and she walked quickly in that direction.
Just as she was about to pass by the sanitation worker, she suddenly caught a glimpse of the sanitation worker stretching out his hand towards her waist.
Nanasheng was startled, turned his waist sharply to avoid the blow, and then without hesitation turned his legs and kicked him hard at the neck.
The man who was still moving slowly just now reacted quickly, retracting his hand and making a blocking motion.
When Nanasheng saw the black object in the opponent's hand, his heart suddenly felt cold.
It was too late when she tried to stop.
There was a tiny crackling sound in the dark alley, accompanied by a flash of blue lightning.
Nanasheng swayed, and before she completely lost consciousness, she saw the sanitation worker grinning at her, revealing a mouthful of yellowed and blackened teeth from smoking.
"Who is it?"
He picked up what he said to himself when he was cleaning alone just now.Her voice was hoarse, and she even lowered her voice on purpose, laughing strangely in her ear.
"It's me……"
When Nana woke up, her head hurt like it was about to burst.
It was as if the scene when he woke up in Furui Ling's bed a few hours ago reappeared.It's just that this time it's not just a hangover, but also the effects of being knocked out.The two phases superimposed, and the headache was even worse than before.
Nanasheng thought of the man's smiling face just now, and almost didn't spit it out. He sat on the spot for a few seconds before barely supporting himself to stand up.
As soon as he moved, the sound of the iron chain being dragged came from behind him.
She looked back at her hands that were handcuffed behind her back and the heavy iron chains connected with the handcuffs, and clicked softly.
With such thorough preparations, it seems that guy planned to tie two people back this time from the very beginning.
The serial killer's appetite is indeed getting bigger and bigger, but it's not just reflected in the shorter and shorter intervals between actions.By the time he struck for the fourth time, even a single prey could no longer satisfy him.
But Nanasheng was not unaware of this.
Serial killers generally follow a certain pattern of committing crimes. Previously, his targets were all female high school students.
So Nana didn't even think about the possibility that he would become a target at all, and just wanted to let Sonoko stay where he was.
It's just that after thousands of calculations, the guy has lame eyes.
Nana felt quite annoyed by this.
As a mature social person, and a social person who has been quite sensitive to age issues due to certain factors recently, being mistaken for a high school student really hit her a bit.
It can't be because she looks too small, right?
"Where is this place..." In the shadow in front of him, the motionless figure who had been curled up since just now suddenly moved, followed by a groan.
Nanasheng originally wanted to call her, but seeing that she had woken up by herself, he said softly, "Xiao Lan?"
"Old Qihai?"
"Shh..."
Mao Lilan woke up suddenly, subconsciously wanted to call her, but was interrupted by Nanasheng.
"Didn't you say it all, just call me Akari." Nanasheng's eyes were bright in the dim room, staring at Mao Lilan without blinking, "You are still so polite after being a classmate for so long, I will Very sad."
Mao Lilan opened his eyes wide, looking straight at Nanasheng.
The latter's facial muscles were tense, and when he heard Mao Lilan hesitantly and tentatively calling out Mingli, he quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
smart kid.
After Mao Lilan saw Qihai Mingli nodded slightly to her, she finally confirmed that she had understood correctly: Teacher Qihai didn't want to reveal that she was a teacher, but why?
She couldn't figure it out, but this question didn't seem that important compared to the current situation.
Mao Lilan turned to look around.
The room was about the size of a classroom, and the decoration looked like an empty warehouse, with a musty smell of decay.
There is no lighting facility inside, and most of the space a little farther away is hidden in the vague darkness, which makes it difficult to see clearly and looks extremely depressing.
The only source of light came from a small window above their heads.It wasn't even big enough for a small child to get in and out, and there were iron bars around the outside, so there was no way to get out from there.
Mao Lilan trembled, forced herself to calm down, and turned to look at Nanasheng who barely adjusted his posture and sat on the spot with his knees bent: "Seven...uh, Mingli, why are we here?"
"Have you watched the news recently? I'm afraid we may have met the serial killer who specifically targeted female high school students."
Nanasheng explained calmly, while wrapping his hands behind his back with unimaginable flexibility, at the same time he accentuated the word "female high school student", and explained to Mao Lilan what she just said the behavior of.
With Nanami Akari's character, in this environment, he should be so flustered that he would cry.But Nanasheng can't care about maintaining the character design at the moment.
Nanasheng had just glanced through the small window, and she probably spent longer in a coma than she estimated.Judging from the sky outside, the sun was almost setting.
After dark, the warehouse will be darker, and it will be more inconvenient to do anything at that time, she must act before then.
What's more, she still has important things to do at midnight tonight.
After Nanasheng moved his hands to the front, his activities were much more convenient than before, and his posture was not so awkward.She got up again dragging the heavy iron chain, walked to the window step by step, and estimated——
It was okay, the chain was barely long enough for her to reach the window.
She raised her hands, and suddenly felt that the heavy burden on her wrists was relieved a lot.
Looking down, she realized that Mao Lilan had twisted her body and supported part of the weight of the iron chain for her with difficulty.
"Thank you..." Nanasheng softened his heart.
"Mingli, did you get caught here because I was implicated?" Mao Lilan seemed to have recalled what happened just now, her voice was tainted with a weak cry, and she had to accept it with difficulty. "I didn't think it was a trap either... When I was passing by, I just saw him accidentally knock over the trash can, so I thought of going over to help him..."
When she just woke up and found that Mao Lilan didn't shed tears when she was kidnapped, but now she started crying because she realized that she might have implicated Nanami Akari.
Nanasheng lowered his hands and quickly stroked Mao Lilan's head with his handcuffed hands.
"What's wrong with being kind?" She knelt down and lowered her voice extremely low, "As a teacher, I'm very happy to have a student like you."
Mao Lilan stared at her blankly.
"Don't worry, we'll be fine."
Nanasheng straightened up again, his eyes fell outside the window, but his heart felt a little heavy.
That man already knew that she was very skilled, and he would be fully prepared when he did it again, fearing that it would not be so easy to resist.
And at least four hours have passed since they were tied up, which shows that Conan still failed to catch up in the first place.
I missed the opportunity to track down this prisoner at the beginning, and I am afraid that the only way to find their whereabouts is to start with surveillance and the like.
That would take a lot of time.
The deceased Xiao Linkui who was discovered this morning disappeared the day before yesterday, and the time interval between the disappearance of the two deceased and the discovery of the bodies seems to be short... There is not much time left for them.
Nanasheng is not sure whether there is a bug or surveillance installed here.So I dare not let Mao Lilan reveal that she is not a high school student.
If the murderer really only kills high school girls.Once he finds out Nanasheng's real age, the only target he can attack here is Mao Lilan.
But even so, there was no delay.We must find a way as soon as possible.
Nana had a headache.
She racked her brains to think, while looking at the small window for the fourth time, then her eyes froze.
She suddenly realized something was wrong.
Pigeons again...
This is the second time she has seen white doves hovering in the sky through that window...
If you think about it this way, it seems that she can always see pigeons today.When I came out of the men's clothing store at noon, a group of people were feeding a white pigeon by the side of the road.
Was that pigeon following her?
Suddenly, Nanasheng's mind appeared in the mind of the extremely flamboyant white figure that he often saw on TV, his brows relaxed, and he had a faint guess in his heart.
At the same time, in another secret meeting room in Tokyo, Rei Fuguya, who had left early in the morning due to urgent matters, put down a thick stack of documents in his hand.
"Mr. Fuguya, these are all the materials about this serial murder case." Kazami Yu also kept quiet by the side while he was reading the materials, and then he said, "Although it has not been announced to the public, this The name of a member of parliament was engraved on all three corpses. That's why the Ministry of Public Security intervened urgently.
I didn't want to trouble you, Mr. Jiang Gu, but this murderer acted too arrogantly, and he has succeeded three times now, and public opinion is raging.If the lettering is leaked out, I'm afraid it will cause a big public commotion..."
Fugu Ling looked down at the documents in front of him, lost in thought, and at this moment Kazami's cell phone rang.
"It's a call from a colleague from the First Search Section." He picked it up in a hurry, his expression changed after he said a few words, and he slapped the table and stood up.
"Just received a report, and there is a new missing person!" Kazami Yuya hurriedly picked up the coat that was on the side and put it on, and then covered the microphone and said, "Mr. Furuya, you should also know the missing person. The detective's daughter, Mao Lilan..."
Jiang Gu Ling got up abruptly after hearing half of it.With his hand on the doorknob of the meeting room, he heard Kazami Yuya who was still on the phone behind him muttering.
"You said there are two missing persons this time? Another is Mao Lilan's high school English teacher? Wait a minute, isn't that guy only targeting female high school students...Mr. Jianggu, why don't you leave?"
Rei Fuguya stopped suddenly at the door of the meeting room, Kazami Yuya almost bumped into him, and stopped quickly in fright.
He grabbed the phone, stared blankly at his boss turning his head, and asked every word with no expression on his face.
"You just said, who is the other one?"
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