Chapter 1017: Three Bigs, One Small, and One Play

Chapter 1017: Three Bigs, One Small, and One Play

Time flies and it is the next night.

Shui Ke Zongfu pushed open the door of the ramen shop and found that there were no customers today. He greeted the shop owner in a familiar manner: "Oh, no customers today?"

Ohashi Ayano smiled and said, "A group of tourists just left not long ago."

"Hey, I see." Shui Ke Zongfu said, and while casually looking at the layout of the store, he walked towards the seat where he had been sitting for the past few days.

Before arriving at his seat, he first observed the seasoning bottles on the table before sitting down.

At this time, the door of the ramen shop was opened, and Yuya, Miyano Shiho, Conan and Sera Masumi walked in together.

"Boss, I'm here today too!"

The shop owner looked up and greeted with a smile: "Welcome, you brought your classmates here today, Mariya-chan."

Sera Masumi smiled bitterly: "I already told you my name is Masumi, when will you remember it, boss?"

Shui Ke Zongfu looked at Youye and the others with a guilty look, but there were always repeat customers here, so he didn't think much about it and shouted to the boss: "Boss, can I order?"

"of course."

Shui Ke Zong Fu ordered snacks such as fried dumplings, spring rolls, and steamed buns, and finally added a small bowl of rice.

The shop owner smiled and joked, "You're not eating ramen today? Are you tired of it?"

Ohashi Ayano brought a glass of ice water and placed it in front of him, smiling and saying, "You always eat Yanma Daiou Ramen every time you come here."

Grind King Ramen is the signature ramen of this to-die-for ramen shop.

"No, not really. I just want to change the taste." Shui Ke Zongfu explained awkwardly.

"Oh, so that's it." Suddenly, a child's voice was heard beside Shui Ke Zongfu.

He looked back and found that Conan had sat next to him at some point, and then he looked over and saw Masumi Sera, Yuya, and Shiho Miyano, all of whom were looking at him.

"What, what's wrong? Is there something wrong with what I ordered?" Shui Ke Zongfu asked nervously.

Conan said innocently, "The food is fine, but why are you sitting here?"

Shui Ke Zongfu's heart skipped a beat and he smiled awkwardly, "What's wrong?"

Conan pointed at the condiment bottle in front of the Miike Zongfu, which had only some soy sauce left at the bottom, and said, "Look, there's only this much soy sauce left. Didn't it run out in a flash?"

Before Shui Ke Zongfu could come up with an excuse, Conan continued to talk to himself: "The spring rolls and other things you ordered all have soy sauce on them, right? You also poured a lot of soy sauce on them yesterday, and even borrowed soy sauce from other places to use."

Last night, Shuike Zongfu poured a lot of soy sauce on his meal, and it was about to overflow from the plate. Conan asked a good question.

"Also, before we came here, there were obviously not many customers in this restaurant. Why did you choose to sit in a seat without soy sauce? Hey, why?"

Conan asked a series of questions, and Soufu, the water supply officer, was confused. He stammered and didn't know how to explain.

"That kind of thing, even if he ordered a lot of dishes that require soy sauce, he wouldn't pay special attention to how much soy sauce is left when choosing a seat, right?" Sera Masumi next to Conan said with a smile, "You chose this seat just by coincidence, right?"

Shui Ke Zongfu choked for a moment, and quickly continued: "No, that's right, that's right."

Sera Masumi continued, "It's not like a popsicle where you can see the words 'win' on the popsicle after you eat it...right?"

After Sera Masumi finished speaking, he and Conan narrowed their eyes and smiled.

Miuke Soufu seemed not to understand the hidden meaning in Sera Masumi's words and just sat there with an innocent look on his face.

"Speaking of which, a murder happened here a few days ago. Have you heard about it?" Youye suddenly said.

"Huh? Is this true?" Miyano Shiho looked at Yuya in surprise, and Conan and Sera Masumi also looked at Yuya with curiosity.

Yuya nodded and pretended to recount the murder case. Then he said mysteriously, "I heard that the criminal did not flee immediately, but kept waving a two-meter-long water pipe at the door of the victim's house. The scene looked like a cult ritual."

"Don't you think it's weird?"

"Ah!" Miyano Shiho made a frightened expression and hugged Yuya's arm, "Don't say such scary things!"

When Sera Masumi saw this, her eyes lit up and she shouted, "Ah, I'm scared too!" Then she hugged Conan beside her.

Conan frowned, and with one hand he supported Sera Masumi's chin and pushed her away: "Sera, you are so good at Jeet Kune Do, even if the criminal is in front of you, you can easily subdue him, right?"

Shira Masumi groaned and said with a look of grievance: "I am a girl too, it is natural for me to be afraid!"

Conan lowered his half-moon eyes and grumbled quietly: "Scared? I think you will rush forward excitedly, right?"

"Hmm," Sera Masumi pretended to cough, "Could it be that there is something tied to the front end of that water pipe?"

Yuya pretended to be surprised and asked, "How do you know? Yes, there are indeed traces of tape on the front of the water pipe. Maybe something was really stuck on it."

Shui Ke Zongfu watched the conversation between the few people with a squint, and sweat began to flow down his back unconsciously.

Miyano Shiho asked curiously: "What did you stick to?"

Sera Masumi guessed, "For example, if we use a piece of gauze with good air permeability and then wave the part with the cloth on it upward, the air in the tube can be thrown out by waving it. In this way..."

Yuya suddenly realized and clapped his palms and said, "It becomes a simple vacuum cleaner, right?"

"You can use the pipe and tape directly from the victim's home, but... it would be difficult to find cloth in a stranger's home, right? Even if you use a handkerchief or towel, they won't be very breathable..."

At this time, Conan said in an innocent tone: "Could it be a mask? When you wear a mask, you can breathe without letting dust pass through."

"That makes sense!" You also agreed.

Conan suddenly looked at Shuike Zongfu beside him: "Speaking of masks, uncle also had a mask in his belongings that day, right?"

Shui Ke Zongfu's heart skipped a beat and he quickly explained, "That's right, I had a slight cold that day."

Conan stretched out the ending sound and said "oh".

"A simple vacuum cleaner made of a mask and a water pipe?" Miyano Shiho tapped her chin with her finger. "Why would the criminal use a simple vacuum cleaner at the door of the victim's house? What was he trying to vacuum?"

"Obviously, escaping from the scene was the most important thing at that time, right?"

Yuya propped up his chin and said, "Based on experience, if the criminal did this, it must be because he left something at the scene that would expose his identity, so he had to take the risk of staying at the scene to deal with it."

Yuya pretended to be thoughtful: "So what exactly is it?"

Sera Masumi pinched his chin and pretended to think: "I heard from the female police officer yesterday that when the criminal was running, there was a clicking sound, which means that something got stuck on the sole of the criminal's foot, and it was something hard that could pierce the sole of the shoe."

Listening to the non-stop conversation between several people, Shui Ke Zongfu's heartbeat became faster and faster, almost jumping out of his throat.

"Could that be a pair of glasses?" Conan suddenly took off his glasses and said innocently, "I once accidentally stepped on one and it broke, and the glass fragments got stuck in the sole of my shoe."

Hearing Conan's words, Shui Ke Zongfu's face suddenly changed.