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Conan nodded repeatedly, very good, very good, Brother Chu Ming is absolutely right.

Maori Kogoro took out his cell phone, tapped a few times, made several phone calls, and came back after a while, "I asked the car rental company to tow the car away. They promised to refund the rental fee and compensate me for lost work. But it looks like it's going to rain, so we can't just wait here. I just received a call from a client on the way, and he wanted to invite me to his home to consult him about something. I just called him and told him that he welcomes us to visit. He is a very famous architect!"

Poor car rental company, they didn't make a penny, several cars were broken down, and they had to pay a huge sum of money. My goodness, next time they will probably block this vehicle killer, Kogoro Mouri. Next time Kogoro Mouri wants to borrow a car, it will probably be impossible.

"But Dad, is it really okay for us to visit like this? And with so much luggage... isn't it too--" Xiaolan felt a little embarrassed.

"Hey, it's okay. He has invited me several times before. When the time comes, I will say that I originally came here for a special trip, but we took his commission and changed our route temporarily to rush here, and the rented car broke down." Kogoro Mouri straightened his clothes, looking as if he was the only one who was embarrassed, and it would be others who were embarrassed.

"Which architect?" Chu Ming was a little curious. There was no village or shop nearby, so how could an architect live here?

Maori Kogoro identified the direction and pointed to the forest on the left: "We can reach the road on the other side after passing through this forest. He will send someone to pick us up. It is the genius architect Kanazawa Ryuichiro who has become famous recently."

"Kanazawa Ryuichiro?" Chu Ming widened his eyes in surprise. It was rare that he failed to control his emotions. Isn't this the person on the list that Gin gave him?

Originally, because the place where Kanazawa Liuyilang lived was too remote, if the customized route deviated there, it would be too obvious, so Chu Ming simply avoided where he lived, and planned to deal with him alone after the journey of death was over... This is really a light at the end of the tunnel, and his title of European Emperor is well deserved.

"Yes, there have been reports about him in the newspapers recently. The newspaper the day before yesterday said that he won the award in the Shanghai Modern Art Museum International Design Competition. Have you read that report as well?"

Conan, on the other hand, was not particularly interested in these things, and Chu Ming was not someone who would pay attention to these things. Hearing this, he tugged at the corner of Chu Ming's clothes curiously: "Brother Chu Ming, have you heard of it?"

Chu Ming nodded. "It is said that he is the most popular architect nowadays. He is very popular among the upper class because the buildings he designed are very gorgeous and not stereotyped. For example, the Sunflower Mansion where he lives has an oval roof that rotates once every twelve hours. Although it is not very practical, this fancy function is especially loved by the upper class."

A rotating roof... Conan was not interested at all, but he understood why Brother Chu Ming was so concerned about an architect... After all, Brother Chu Ming seemed to be particularly fond of those fancy things.

Xiaolan's eyes lit up too: "That's amazing! It's really like a sunflower chasing the sun. It sounds so interesting!"

Seeing that Xiaolan was interested, Chu Ming recalled the information he had seen from Gin, and smiled and explained to Xiaolan: "Xiaolan, do you still remember the water crystal near Tokyo Bay? It is a building that uniquely puts the restaurant underwater. It was designed by this Kanazawa architect. In the resume of Kanazawa architect, there are several more famous buildings, probably the colorful underwater dragon palace and the flowing stone garden in Izu.

The colorful underwater dragon palace was designed by Mr. Kanazawa for the famous tea ceremony master Master Aono. From site selection to architectural design, everything was done by Mr. Kanazawa alone. The master's tea room was placed in the center of the water. Every autumn, five different colors will appear on the water surface depending on the sunlight, so it is called the colorful underwater dragon palace.

The Water Flowing Stone Garden was custom-made by the president of Mushan Furniture. The garden is specially designed with a waterfall. It is said that the garden is covered with white sand. At 4 am and pm, the waterfall will cover the garden. The soft white sand and gurgling water are also Mr. Kanazawa's famous works. The tour route we set this time will pass by these two places. When the time comes, we can borrow the uncle's name to go in and visit~"

Xiaolan's face was full of longing: "These buildings sound so beautiful~"

Maori Kogoro was leading the way silently in front, but when he heard this, he turned back with a frown on his face: "What do you mean by borrowing my name to visit? Don't even think about it!"

Chu Ming sighed when he heard this: "Well, that's true. The title of Uncle Detective is not omnipotent. I guess his reputation in Izu has not spread yet. Let's just forget it——"

"What do you mean by forget it!!! I, Kogoro Mori, will personally take you to visit him!!! I will let you see whether the title of famous detective is useful or not!!!" Kogoro Mori, who could never stand being provoked, turned his head angrily and said something cruel.

Chu Ming smiled triumphantly when he heard that, raised his eyebrows at Xiaolan and Conan, and secretly gave himself a thumbs up.

As expected of me, I can think of this method of taking advantage of every opportunity to complete the task.

Chapter 318: Still the Fifth Day

Sitting in the car sent by Kanazawa Ryuichiro, the few of them successfully arrived at the gate of Sunflower Mansion, and happened to meet two disciples who came here to celebrate for him.

Kanazawa Ryuichiro pointed at Maori Kogoro with a proud look on his face and said to his two disciples: "Don't be scared when you hear this, this is Mr. Maori Kogoro!"

Seeing the surprised looks of the two, Maori Kogoro's vanity exploded. He adjusted his tie and cleared his throat: "Yes, I am the famous detective Maori Kogoro. Please give me your guidance."

Conan grumbled quietly, "How can anyone call himself a famous detective? This is too embarrassing..."

No one else heard the voice that was almost a whisper - except Chu Ming.

How come it's gone? You yourself said in almost every episode that the only one who saw through the truth was Detective Conan, who looked like a child but was smart beyond ordinary people... Tsk tsk, you're the only one who can brag.

After asking two students to entertain Conan and Xiaolan and show them around the mansion, Kanazawa Ryuichiro regarded Chu Ming, who had always appeared beside Mori, as Mori's apprentice and invited him and Mori Kogoro into the study.

Kanazawa Liuyilang placed a stack of photos that were obviously taken secretly on the table: "Mr. Maori, please look at these photos. They were sent to the mansion anonymously before. I have received these every week since three months ago. Someone must be secretly following me and wants to attack me, so I would like to ask Mr. Maori to help me find out who sent these photos to me."

Maori Kogoro picked up the photos and looked at them carefully. Indeed, Kanazawa Ryuichiro was in every photo. "Then, Mr. Kanazawa, do you have any suspects? Or any clues would be fine."

Jinze Liuyilang thought for a while and shook his head: "I have no idea at all."

Maori Kogoro's face was full of seriousness at this time. He stood up and walked to the window, staring at the few people downstairs who were taking Conan and Xiaolan to prepare ingredients for the evening barbecue, and said meaningfully: "Please think about it carefully. Based on my experience in handling cases for so long, there is a great possibility that the stalker is your relatives or friends, for example-"

Chu Ming saw Jin Ze Liu Yi Lang's eyes flickering, as if he had thought of something, and then he smiled and changed the subject: "I see that Lin Tian and Yu Sen have already prepared the barbecue grill, why don't we go downstairs and have some barbecue first, and Mr. Mao Li can have a couple of drinks, and then we can talk about this matter in detail?"

Kogoro Maori nodded when he heard this, and thinking that since his car broke down, he could stay here for one night, so he readily agreed.

Kanazawa Liuichiro stood up and led the two people out. Chu Ming followed behind. Thinking of Kanazawa Liuichiro's resume in the information, unlike those people who had taken the initiative to provoke the winery before, the reason why Kanazawa Liuichiro was targeted by the organization was purely bad luck. It was because he was in the limelight recently and blocked the way of the architect trained by the organization.

Among all kinds of talents cultivated by the organization, the organization pays more attention to architects who can easily get in touch with the upper level. Therefore, once a dark horse like Kanazawa Ryuichiro suddenly appears, the organization generally has two ways to deal with it, either to win him over or to eliminate him.

Unfortunately, after discovering that several of Kanazawa Ryuichiro's works were plagiarized from his disciple Yu Sen, the organization gave up the option of winning him over and chose to get rid of him directly.

While eating barbecue at night, Mitsuko, the wife of Ryuichiro Kanazawa, was drunk. She suddenly looked up and flirted with Kogoro Maori: "You are the famous Maori detective, right? Can I ask you for a favor?"

Maori Kogoro raised his head from his wine glass: "Ah? What's the matter?"

"I want you to see if this guy has cheated on you. If he has, I can give you half of the settlement fee after the divorce~" Mitsuko Kanazawa tempted him.

"That's enough, Mitsuko, stop talking nonsense. How are you going to get on the plane tomorrow if you drink so much?" Jinze grabbed his wife's hand.

"Why don't you go to that award ceremony alone? Why don't you go with that stalker?" Mitsuko, under the influence of alcohol, shook off Kanazawa Ryuichiro's hand and taunted him meaningfully.

Jinze Liuyilang's expression changed immediately. He said sternly, "That's enough. I won't let you talk nonsense anymore!"

"Tsk." Mitsuko said with disdain, "I think you are the one talking nonsense. You keep saying that someone is following you. I think you have brought this upon yourself! Who told you to—"

Kanazawa Ryuichiro didn't let Mitsuko continue. He raised his voice to cover his wife's voice, "Hayashida! Why have you been eating meat all day!!"

Lin Tian, ​​who was innocently called out, raised the skewer in his hand with a bewildered look on his face: "Huh? But this meat is delicious..."

"All you do is eat meat. It's because of your biased attitude that you can't draw good original works! Do you know..." In order to change the subject, Kanazawa pointed the gun directly at Hayashida, making him lower his head and unable to speak.

Lin Tian pursed his lips, put down the skewer in his hand, looked at the skewers, stood up and walked towards the door.

Jin Ze, who was spitting vigorously, looked dissatisfied: "I haven't finished talking yet, where are you going?"

"I'll go get a few bottles of beer from the refrigerator." After saying that, Lin Tian left in silence.

The atmosphere at the dinner table became very strange and awkward. No one spoke for a while, and only Chu Ming was silently eating the skewers.

Kanazawa Mitsuko held her chin up and said, "Don't pick on the weak. You know, when an honest person gets angry, he can be very scary. Don't you agree, Yusen?"

No one answered her, and Yu Sen continued to grill the meat as if he didn't hear her.

But Mitsuko was not embarrassed at all, and didn't care how stiff the atmosphere was, she just kept drinking.

After a while, Yu Sen also said that he was going to get charcoal, and went out directly. When he came back, he reminded Kanazawa Liuichirō coldly that the 7:30 show was about to begin. Looking at Kanazawa Liuichirō's leaving figure, thinking that he would be killed by the mechanism he set up soon, a satisfied smile slowly appeared at the corner of his mouth.

But until 7:40, the gunshot that he had set to go off at 7:35 was still silent. He anxiously tapped the back of his hand and looked towards the warehouse with uneasiness. What was going on? Was he discovered?

No, he absolutely couldn't let that man survive tonight!

Chapter 319: Death's Outing Day

Yu Sen looked around and found that Conan and the others were running out of drinks, so he stood up quickly and said, "I'll get you some drinks."

Then he quickly stood up, opened the door, and walked towards the warehouse to see if the mechanism he made was stuck.

He had tied a gun to the tree outside the door in advance, with the muzzle pointed at Kanazawa Ryuichiro who was watching TV in front of the TV. Then he pulled a transparent rope on the trigger of the gun, hung a heavy object on one end, and tied a knot on the other end. The rope was pulled from the outside of the second floor wall of the mansion to the decorative pipe outside the second floor.

In this way, as time passed, the second floor rotated, and the knot should have fallen from the decorative tube at 7:35, and the heavy object at the other end would have fallen down, pulling the trigger at the same time, killing the man completely. But no one knew what went wrong. It was clearly 7:40, but the gunshot that should have been heard never happened.

When Yu Senya arrived in front of the warehouse, he looked up at the knot hanging on the pole on the second floor. As expected, during the fall, it was accidentally hooked by a nail that suddenly appeared next to the second floor. Yu Senya repeated the previous action and put the knot back on to make sure that it would not be hooked by the nail again. Just as he was about to take apart the stick rolled up with newspaper, the door was pushed open with a creaky sound.

Chu Ming and Conan poked their heads in at the same time. Conan looked curiously at the stick in Yusen Masaya's hand, then looked up at the upstairs.

Because it was dark, he didn't see the thin line. However, after so many cases, he would feel something was wrong when he saw people holding strange objects in their hands. He subconsciously asked, "Hey, Brother Yusen, didn't you come here to get a drink? Why are you playing with sticks here? I want to play too!"

Yu Sen Masaya looked grim, and folded up the long paper tube made of newspaper to try to cover it up: "When I came to get the drink, I saw a bird stuck on it, and I just used this to pry it out."

As soon as he finished speaking, as the roof moved, Conan and Chu Ming clearly saw a thin transparent line flash by, followed by a gunshot.

Conan's face changed and he looked in the direction of the gunshot. It was the room on the second floor where Kanazawa Ryuichiro was watching TV programs.

Damn it, he actually killed someone in front of him!!!

When the people outside hurriedly pushed the door and prepared to go up the stairs, they saw Amemori Masaya with a pale face holding a paper tube, Conan with an angry face, and Chu Ming who was staring at Amemori Masaya's thoughts.

"Did you make that sound just now?" Kogoro Mouri asked with a serious face.

Chu Ming shook his head: "It's on the second floor. I smelled blood, but I didn't hear Mr. Jin Ze's voice... Anyway, let's go up and take a look at the situation!"

Following the spiral staircase, several people quickly ran up to the second floor and saw Kanazawa Ryuichiro leaning back in a chair with his head tilted back, with a gun muzzle on his temple.

Chu Ming looked towards the window. There was a bullet hole on the side window. On the tree outside the wall facing the window, the metallic luster of a gun flashed by.

Hayashida has already called the police. Conan stood there abnormally, not looking for clues with Maori Kogoro. Although he did not see Amemori Masaya set up the murder trap himself, he saw him taking back the paper tube. If he had figured out the mystery of this case at that time, he could have saved Mr. Kanazawa...

Chu Ming turned around and looked at Yusen Masaya: "Mr. Yusen, you are the murderer, right? Just now when Conan and I opened the door, you were holding that long paper tube, not to poke the bird, but to design your murder mechanism!"

Yu Sen knew that he could no longer hide it. Although Chu Ming and Conan did not see the whole scene, once he told this scene to Maori Kogoro, the famous detective would definitely see through his tricks at a glance, and his painstakingly prepared alibi would be in vain.

Fortunately, his revenge was achieved. He chuckled and said, "Yes, I killed him."

Mitsuko Kanazawa also came over at this time, looking melancholy: "Is it because of the winning design this time? A few days before the deadline for the competition, I heard him yelling in the study, saying that he had no inspiration at all. But in the blink of an eye, on the day of the competition deadline, he produced a beautifully designed draft. I advised him at that time, but he..."

Even though his revenge had been taken, Yu Sen Ya still clenched his fists tightly when he heard the news: "Yes, I was actually the one who designed the Shanghai Modern Art Museum. But when I went to confront the teacher, he warned me to recognize my identity and said that this manuscript was actually nothing outstanding. It was only because he submitted it and because of his fame that this manuscript attracted the attention of the world and was selected for the competition. I should thank him...

At that time, I swore that I would never let him have the chance to attend the award ceremony. He will leave tomorrow. So even though I was surprised to see the famous detective visit me today, I still did it. I was prepared. If my murder was not exposed, I would not be suppressed by the teacher and I would be able to become an excellent designer in the future. If this incident was exposed, at least, it would clear the names of my manuscripts that were stolen by the teacher before..."

Soon, Yu Senya was taken away by Officer Yokomizo who arrived. Before leaving, Officer Yokomizo came to Chu Ming, patted his shoulder regretfully, and said that Chu Ming solved the case too quickly this time. It was a pity that he did not get to see Chu Ming's heroic appearance when he solved the case.

Chu Ming modestly sent Officer Yokogawa away, lowered his eyes and restrained his expression. Of course, he solved the case quickly. After all, he designed the second half of the plot himself.

When he was upstairs, Chu Ming relied on his enhanced eyesight to clearly see the transparent filaments extending from the tree, and immediately understood the method the murderer was going to use.

He thought that it would be very troublesome to find evidence and infer with this method, so it would be better to catch the murderer in the act after he finished committing the crime. So he picked up a nail in the mansion and shot it into the side of the decorative pipe when no one was paying attention. In this way, even if the knot slipped off the decorative pipe, it would be hooked by the nail. If the murderer wanted to commit a crime, he would definitely find an excuse to go out twice.

This way, when someone leaves for the second time, he can just find an excuse to take Conan with him and catch them in the act.

Sure enough, everything went as he had imagined, and another mission was completed.

Alas, the organization's tasks were too easy to complete and there was no challenge at all.

After the police left, Kanazawa Mitsuko did not feel sad at all. Instead, she warmly invited Maori Kogoro and others to stay here. She said in a Versailles way that as a widow, she didn't know what to say because her husband left such a large inheritance. She warmly invited Maori Kogoro and others to stay here for a few more days, but Maori Kogoro was very moved and refused.

The next morning, the car that Kogoro Mori rented had been towed away by the rental car agency. Mitsuko Kanazawa originally wanted to send someone to drive Kogoro Mori for the next journey, but when Kogoro Mori declined, she only sent someone to take them to the nearby station.

Xiaolan was still a little depressed. When Conan saw that Xiaolan was in a bad mood, he quickly came over and asked, "Sister Xiaolan, what's wrong with you? You don't look very happy."

Xiaolan sighed: "I still care about Mr. Kanazawa's affairs. I always feel that after so many cases, I can't believe in those geniuses anymore."

While waiting for the bus, Maori Kogoro turned around and comforted her: "Others may not dare to believe it, but you can always believe in your dad! Look, I'm a genius too! As a nationally famous detective, I'm like two different people when I sleep, and I'm omnipotent in solving cases and reasoning. Oh hahahaha~"

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