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"It's OK. It's mainly because my parents support me." Kenzuka Kei didn't seem to want to say more. She took out her key and stood sideways to block the door. "Okay, as you can see, there are no people spying near my house. I'm home now. Thank you for sending me back. Too many things happened today. I won't keep you for tea..."
Among the people present, only Maori and his daughter were truly here to send her home. Hearing this, Maori Kogoro nodded and said, "Well, that's fine. Then we'll send her here..."
Before he finished speaking, Conan the Drama Queen began his performance. He hugged his stomach fiercely and stomped his feet back and forth alternately: "Ahhh, my stomach hurts so much. I forgot to go to the toilet just now. Big sister, bathroom, bathroom, please, can I use the bathroom? Please, please, I can't hold it any longer..."
Kenzuka Kei paused as she was holding the door handle. She didn't want to let these people in at all, but they came here out of concern for her safety. If she didn't let this child go to the toilet, it would seem particularly inhumane, so she had no choice but to open the door: "Okay, okay, don't worry..."
The moment the door opened, Conan quickly squeezed in through the crack. Kenzuka Kei turned on the light at the entrance, thinking that since Conan was the only child going in, he probably wouldn't find anything: "The toilet is on the right side of the entrance."
As people walked around, the smell in the room also drifted out. Chu Ming frowned slightly. This smell was like the stench of a corpse.
He glanced back at Toru Amuro and saw a hint of interest in his eyes. It was obvious that he had also smelled this scent.
The moment he realized something was wrong, Toru Amuro blinked his eyes and looked embarrassed: "Ms. Kenzuka, I'm really sorry, I couldn't help it..."
Before Kenzuka Kei could think of a reason to refuse, Maori Kogoro also spoke up: "Actually, I did too... I wanted to go to the bathroom before, but after that incident, I couldn't go..."
Good, good, Chu Ming couldn’t help but want to applaud them. They were treating other people’s homes as public toilets... How come Conan’s frequent urination is also contagious among people?
There was no other way, Kenzuka Kei could only turn around and say to the people gathered at the door with a smile: "Why don't you come in and have a seat? Although I can only offer you tea."
The few people who were waiting for her to say this took off their shoes and followed her in. Xiaolan followed behind embarrassedly, apologizing repeatedly: "I'm so sorry, Miss Kei."
"No, there's nothing we can do about it. It's understandable." Kei Kenzuka forced a smile as he watched several people enter the room with great ease.
The living room was a mess, with fast food boxes and packaging bags scattered all over the table, like a mess left after a party.
Maori Kogoro looked around and was a little surprised that such a delicate and beautiful girl like Kentsuka Kei had such a messy home. What was even more surprising was that Kentsuka Kei said that her brother had just passed away and she had been busy with his funeral recently, but she was still in the mood to bring people to her home for a dinner party: "Oh, this table is too... Was there a banquet held last night?"
"Yes, a friend from college came over unexpectedly. I'm really sorry, my house is a mess..." Kei Kenzuka was looking for something in the kitchen, and turned back to explain when he heard this.
Chu Ming saw that she seemed to want to find a cup of tea to entertain them, but she looked like she had no idea where she put the things. It seemed that this was not her home. Thinking of the stench of corpse he smelled when he just came in, Chu Ming lowered his eyes in understanding and sat down casually on the sofa.
Kogoro Mouri looked around boredly, muttered a few words about why Conan was so slow, then picked up the remote control on the table and turned on the TV, intending to watch some TV to kill some time.
What was being broadcast on TV at that moment was the news that a man had committed suicide in the restroom of the Maori Detective Agency.
"The news came out so quickly?" Xiaolan quickly took out her cell phone. "Oh no, my phone has been turned off. Mom must be worried about us after reading the news..."
Sure enough, as soon as she turned on her phone, the phone rang rapidly. She just picked up the phone, before she had time to speak, she heard Shiliang yelling anxiously on the other end of the phone: "Why did you turn off your phone? This is very worrying!"
"Shiliang?" Xiaolan was surprised. "Sorry, sorry, a lot of things happened today, and it's a mess here, so I haven't had time to check my phone..."
"Are Conan and Kogoro okay?" Finally getting in touch with them, Sera finally breathed a sigh of relief. She almost started to imagine what had happened to Xiaolan and the others.
The voice on the other end of the phone was a little intermittent. Xiaolan brought the phone in front of her and saw that the signal bar had not decreased. She was a little confused: "Sorry, Sera, your voice has been intermittent... I can't hear it clearly."
When Toru Amuro heard Xiaolan say that the phone call was intermittent, he suddenly became alert. He was also a top intelligence officer in reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance. Now that it involved his professional field, he immediately became alert.
Chapter 716 Poor students have too much stationery
Amuro Toru took two steps forward, cut off the call, made a 'hush' gesture to Xiaolan, then turned back to Kenzuka Kei and said, "Ms. Kei, your house may be bugged by someone."
Xiaolan didn't care about the hung up call and asked in surprise: "How can you be so sure about this?"
Chu Ming raised his eyes and glanced at Amuro Toru. Why else? He often eavesdropped on others and was very experienced.
Maori Kogoro was a policeman after all, so he realized what was going on. He stood up and said seriously, "It's because of your phone call just now. If there is a bug here, the phone communication will become intermittent."
Chu Ming tilted his head, feeling very strange. The doctor's house was almost like a sieve, but it didn't affect the mobile phone signal at all. Was it because the FBI's eavesdropping device was of higher quality? Or did Dr. Agasa master some core technology and strengthen the signal at home?
"As expected of Mr. Maori, you have such profound knowledge." In his busy schedule, Toru Amuro did not forget to praise Maori Kogoro, although it was a bit perfunctory...
Then he turned to Kenzuka Kei and said, "Ms. Kei, we may have to thoroughly search this house for bugs now. Do you mind?"
Of course, Kei Katatsuka couldn't mind. Not only that, she had to act very grateful, because after all, Toru Amuro was helping her eliminate the danger.
But what she did in this house obviously couldn't be seen in public, so she quickly took two steps forward: "Wait, excuse me, can you wait for me for five minutes? The room is a bit messy, and I still need to sort out my personal belongings and so on."
After saying that, he opened the door of the living room and walked out.
Chu Ming looked at her slightly hurried steps and narrowed his eyes. It didn't look like she was cleaning the room, but rather like she was packing up and running away.
Sure enough, Chu Ming and others sat and waited in the living room for ten minutes, but Kei Kenzuka did not come back. Chu Ming even found that the location point representing Conan on his system panel was getting farther and farther away from here.
It seems that Kei Katatsuka just sneaked out and was caught by Conan. I really don't know who is kidnapping whom in this case.
Amuro Toru raised the detector he had taken out from somewhere and shook it: "Why don't we first look for any bugs in the living room?"
Since Conan wasn't around, Chu Ming's question seemed much more casual: "Why do you carry this kind of thing with you?"
Amuro Toru smiled with his eyebrows curved, like a clear spring: "As a detective, isn't it normal to carry all kinds of equipment with you?"
Chu Ming looked at Maori Kogoro and deliberately took the opportunity to suppress him: "Uncle Maori, why don't you use these things? I think you are a poor student with too many stationery and not enough strength to make up for it with equipment."
Kogoro Maori cleared his throat. Although he was very happy to be secretly praised by Chu Ming, he also knew that the reason he didn't have these things was simply because he had not prepared them, not because he didn't need them.
"After all, I'm not as good as Mr. Maori, so I can only prepare more complete tools." Amuro Toru no longer paid attention to Chu Ming's sarcasm, turned to Xiaolan and smiled, "Please help me, Xiaolan. Stand in the middle of the room and turn up the music on your phone to the maximum. I want to find the location of the bugs with the help of the music."
Chu Ming watched as Toru Amuro used a detector to determine, based on the sound of the music, that there were bugs in several sockets. He found five in the living room alone. He didn't know what valuables were in the room that would require so many bugs.
Maori Kogoro followed the two of them, frowning as he watched the bugs being found one after another: "Is Miss Kei's key so important? He actually sneaked into her house and planted so many bugs."
Chu Ming leaned against the wall and covered his nose with his hand. His body had been modified and his sense of smell was overdeveloped, so the closer he got to the bedroom, the stronger the stench Chu Ming felt, almost suffocating him.
He frowned uncomfortably and stretched out his hands to Amuro Toru: "Mr. Amuro, you have all the tools, do you have a mask?"
Toru Amuro raised the corner of his lips and actually took out a mask from his pocket and handed it to Chu Ming.
Chu Ming took it as if he had been pardoned, put it on his face, and then slowly exhaled. Are all the people in this organization Doraemon? How come there are so many things in their pockets?
"Why do you suddenly feel so uncomfortable? Is the room too stuffy? Do you want to go out for some fresh air?" Kogoro Mouri asked with some concern.
Chu Ming shook his head, his voice sounding muffled through the thick mask: "Don't you smell it? The closer you get to this door, the stronger the stench becomes, like the stench of a rotting corpse two or three days after death."
Xiaolan was frightened by Chu Ming's words and took several steps back until her back was against the wall and she was forced to stop: "How, how could it be? Miss Gui--"
Kogoro Mouri reached out and pushed open the bedroom door next to him. As expected, as the door opened, a strong stench hit him in the face, almost making his eyes red.
He used to be a policeman and had dealt with corpses many times, so he was naturally familiar with this smell. His face gradually became solemn and he began to search around.
The bedroom is not big, it just has a single bed, a wardrobe and a table, and there are only a few places where people can hide.
Chu Ming stretched out his hand and opened the door of the closet. The clothes inside were all men's clothes. "If there's nothing in the closet, then there must be something under the bed."
At this time, Xiaolan was hiding behind Chu Ming, with only her head showing, and saw that Mouri Kogoro really dragged out a huge suitcase from under the bed.
When the suitcase was dragged out, the detector in Toru Amuro's hand started beeping.
"It looks like there's not only a body in here, but also a bug..." Chu Ming couldn't help but complain, "What was the murderer thinking? He put a bug in here to hear if the person was dead or not?"
Chapter 717: There is a plan
Xiaolan was already terrified when she heard about the corpse, and now she felt even more terrified after hearing Chu Ming's words. She felt so horrified that she almost shrank to the door.
Kogoro Mouri opened the suitcase, revealing the body of a thin man who had been forcibly stuffed into the suitcase.
Amuro Toru half-crouched in front of the suitcase and reached out to pull the body a few times. "This person is really petite. The cause of death should be a heavy blow to the head. The time of death has been more than a day. There are corpse spots on the body."
Xiaolan was also a veteran. After the initial shock, she pinched her nose and walked forward to take a look, then turned her head to look at the door: "Speaking of which, I haven't seen Conan and Miss Kei since just now. How about we ask her?"
Chu Ming was driven away by the stench and stood at the door and answered, "I think Miss Kei ran away when we just expressed our desire to search the whole house. As for Conan, did he fall into the toilet? It wouldn't take so long to poop, right?"
"Indeed, when I passed by the entrance just now, I found that Miss Kei's boots were missing. At that time, I thought she had put them in the shoe cabinet, but now I think about it, maybe she had already run away at that time?" Toru Amuro squatted beside the box, not minding the stench coming out of it.
"You think that the murderer of this man is Miss Kei?" Kogoro Mouri frowned. He really didn't want to believe that the beautiful and gentle-looking woman was actually a murderer.
"I'm not sure about this, but Conan's shoes also disappeared, which is what makes me more concerned..." Amuro Toru frowned, "I think Conan might not have stayed in the toilet for a long time, and when he came out of the toilet, he happened to see Miss Kei leaving, so he might have chased after her, or Miss Kei was afraid that he would alarm us, so she took him away..."
Xiaolan quickly took out her cell phone: "No, I'll call Conan to see..."
Maori Kogoro also took out his cell phone: "Then I will send a message to ask Miss Kei, but if Conan was really taken away by her, she may not reply to me at all-"
Just as he finished speaking, his phone started to beep: "Hmm? Miss Kei called me back?"
Several people gathered around to look at Kogoro Mouri's cell phone.
"Since you sent me a message asking me, does that mean the body has been found? I plan to release the child tomorrow morning, but if you dare to call the police and make any move that hinders my escape, then I can't guarantee the child's safety."
The accompanying picture is a photo of Conan sleeping soundly in the passenger seat.
Maori Kogoro's face darkened: "It seems that Conan was really taken away by her."
Amuro Toru nodded, stood up and said, "It is very likely that she killed the man in the office as well."
"Isn't Conan in danger now?" Xiaolan's eyes were full of worry. When she thought that Conan was taken away by a murderer who killed two people, she felt very worried.
"But the police did not detect any gunpowder reaction on Miss Kei. Doesn't this mean that she didn't fire the shot?" Kogoro Mouri retorted.
"But the absence of gun smoke doesn't necessarily mean that she didn't fire the shot. Aren't there a few towels at the scene for unknown purposes? Maybe she used them to escape the police investigation." Chu Ming said lazily, "But these are all assumptions. The most important thing now is to rescue Conan first."
"But the text message asked us to wait until tomorrow morning..." Xiaolan anxiously twisted her fingers and suddenly remembered something, "Dr. Agasa must know where Conan is! We can call him and ask!"
It was the second time that he heard the name of Dr. Agasa. Amuro Toru raised his eyebrows and said with a puzzled look: "I have heard you mention Dr. Agasa several times. Who is this person?"
Xiaolan quickly explained to him: "He is Conan's friend. Conan has been wearing the detective badge with a signal-sending function made by Dr. Agasa. Dr. Agasa also has a pair of glasses for tracking signals."
Amuro Toru silently noted down the new information: "Such a useful thing, I must ask him for help."
"I've already called the doctor." Chu Ming shook his phone with a smile on his face that only Amuro Toru could understand. "The doctor said his car was sent in for repairs, and he was going to rent a car to track it. It just so happened that his neighbor Mr. Okiya heard my call when he was delivering soup to them, so he was eager to help. They have already taken Mr. Okiya's car to track it, and they will notify me when there is any news. The doctor also promised to share the location with me in real time."
Chu Ming emphasized his tone when he mentioned Mr. Okiya. Amuro Toru's eyes flashed, and a happy smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, but he quickly realized the current environment and restrained his smile: "What a warm-hearted neighbor..."
Tsk tsk, Akai Shuichi and Amuro Toru always come to the main storyline with food, they seem enthusiastic but they are not sincere at all. Who would have the time to deliver soup to the neighbors at night?
At that time, he also said on the phone that he just overheard at the door by accident, and he didn't eavesdrop on it on purpose. He didn't eavesdrop on it on purpose and installed so many bugs in the doctor's house...
Chu Ming suddenly felt that Akai Shuichi was probably squatting in the kitchen all the time, eavesdropping and stewing soup, just to have an excuse to deliver food to the doctor's house at the critical moment.
But judging from the tone of Shuichi Akai's voice on the phone at that time, he must have scared poor Ai again.
It's a pity that he is not here. All my good mood points are wasted.
Chu Ming was thinking when Xiaolan's cell phone rang again. Her first reaction was that it was Conan calling, so she quickly picked up the phone. Before she could say anything, she heard Sera's crying voice from the other end of the phone. Chu Ming could hear it clearly even from such a distance.
"Why did you suddenly hang up on me just now? Are you starting to hate me?!"
Xiaolan tried to comfort her in a hurry: "I'm sorry, Sera, a lot of things happened just now, and I can't explain it for the time being, but Conan is in danger now, he was kidnapped by a murderer..."
Xiaolan told Sera everything that happened this afternoon. Sera knew Conan's identity, so she was not too worried after listening. Instead, she comforted Xiaolan and said, "Don't worry too much. Conan is so smart. Maybe he has his own plans. I will go to your place now. I am also very interested in Mr. Maori's new disciple."
Chu Ming raised his eyebrows: "So many people came to help..."
Conan is so impressive. I just wonder which kidnapper this time or the kidnapper on the bus before is luckier to be able to come into contact with so many red and black parties.