dognovel Chapter 116
Chapter 116
"It's okay, you don't have to come over." Hoshimi Mei tilted her head with the phone between her legs, packing the things he brought in the backpack with her hands. On the other end of the phone, Mao Lilan took the time to call from the hospital. After Matsuda Jinpei answered the phone, he threw the phone to Hoshimi Mei and asked him to report that he was safe.
"Are uncle and Sonoko okay?"
"Dad has woken up now, and Sonoko is much better, but her fever has not subsided yet." Ran Mouri sat on a bench in the hospital, took the drink handed to her by Conan Edogawa, smiled and said thank you to Conan, then she put the bottle beside her legs and continued to ask about Mei Hoshimiya or the situation over there.
"Matsuda, Hagiwara and the others met a high school detective from Osaka in the lobby. He should be investigating that case now." Hoshimi Mei couldn't think of any interesting stories about the trip, but she didn't want Mouri Ran to feel too guilty about not being able to keep the appointment, so she could only tell her about everything she remembered along the way.
Hearing that the other party had encountered a case, Mao Lilan suddenly knocked over the drink bottle beside her legs and said with a worried look on her face: "You encountered a case?! You didn't encounter any danger? Are you okay?"
Edogawa Conan, who was sitting next to her, was startled and almost spit out his drink. He choked and coughed so hard that it seemed like he was going to cough out his lungs.
Mao Lilan reacted quickly and pressed the speaker, then leaned over and patted the boy on the back to help him breathe.
"I haven't encountered any cases. I'm not Kudo."
The loudspeaker transmitted the boy's complaint clearly, and Edogawa Conan, who had finally recovered his breath, laughed silently in his heart. He glared at someone on the other end of the phone through his droopy eyelids.
Edogawa Conan didn't pay attention to this complaint. He didn't hear their previous conversation and didn't know what happened. The little boy approached and pretended to be curious and asked: "Did Xinghai brother encounter anything interesting?"
"Conan?" Xing Hai Mei took the mobile phone in his hand and called up the system panel to remotely receive Ricardo's email. He clicked on the email investigating Akutami Sanki, and as expected, he did not find any problems.
Although he had guessed that there would be no problem, at least on the surface.
After all, that person died right under Ricardo's nose. If there was any problem that could be seen in a short time, it would not have been discovered now.
Hoshimi Mei may have skipped the matter of Akutami Sanki, and summarized what happened in the lobby in a few words, and said that Matsuda Jinpei and Hagiwara Kenji went to investigate, so she told Mouri Ran not to worry too much.
When Edogawa Conan heard "the famous high school detective in Osaka", the corners of his mouth twitched. After Xing Haimei finished speaking, he said faintly: "That high school detective, wouldn't he speak with a Kansai accent, be very dark, and wear a hat?"
Hearing this, Xing Hai Ya paused for a moment. He recalled the man's characteristics and found that it seemed to be true, so he started to ask.
"you know?"
Conan Edogawa was about to say categorically that he didn't know the guy with the Kansai accent who almost exposed his identity several times, but Ran Maoli spoke first: "It's Hattori. He has been to the office before and solved several unsolved cases in Tokyo. He is a high school detective who is not inferior to Shinichi."
At this point, Mao Lilan seemed to remember something and added, "There should be a girl with a ponytail next to him, her name is Toyama Kazuha."
"Really?" Xing Hai Yahu didn't pay much attention. He turned off the system panel, put down the things he was half packing, walked to the window and opened the tightly closed glass window.
The rooms in this hotel are very nicely decorated. They are not ordinary standard suites. Just now, when Matsuda Jinpei opened the door of the room, Xinghai Ya took a look and saw three pots of green ivy growing beautifully on the shelves inside.
Unlike Matsuda Jinpei's room, Xinghai Mei put the small succulent pot on the table on the windowsill outside, hesitating whether to water it.
Mao Lilan had given him a pot of flowers before. Now, the species of the plant that died before it had a chance to bloom has been forgotten by Xinghai Ya and has been put into a corner. However, since then he has been nicknamed "Plant Killer".
This nickname is still used to tease him.
There are also some potted plants in the apartment, but Midorikawa always refuses his help, so he doesn't know whether these pots of succulents need watering.
But you won’t die from basking in the sun.
If it's on the second floor, it shouldn't be a big deal if it's blown down by the wind, after all, there's grass below.
By the way, if it really dies, it will prove its title of "plant killer", right?
Giving up the idea of watering the plants, Xinghai Yahu reached out to pull the window bolt. When he was about to close the glass window, he heard the sound of conversation below.
"Hey, is it really okay for us to do this?" The man's voice trembled slightly, as if he was so frightened that his upper and lower teeth were chattering.
"The police have already come to investigate. If we get caught, we'll be doomed."
The boy's action of closing the window paused. He used the wall to cover his body as if he suddenly became interested. His eyelids drooped, and he listened quietly to the conversation downstairs through the transparent glass.
This kind of conversation usually only happens between the real culprit and his accomplices, and if nothing unexpected happens, the person who asks this question is very likely to be killed.
Xing Hai Ya looked at the silver light flashing below with an expressionless face. Her light gray-blue eyes reflected the cold color and also added a bit of inorganic indifference.
That was the reflection of the smooth surface of the metal product under the light, and the thing that produced the cold light was a fruit knife with the handle wrapped around it.
He had no intention of stopping this from happening, so he just watched from the sidelines, without any kindness in reminding the man who was about to be silenced to be careful of backstabbing from his accomplices.
Xing Haiya watched the man holding the dagger high with her peripheral vision, and carefully hid herself against the wall.
This person should be the key person in the case. Although we still don’t know what they did, it should be related to the death notice.
But this person was wrapped too tightly, with almost no skin exposed. He was definitely trying to hide his identity and was dressed in such a way that it was impossible to tell who he was.
Besides, Xing Haimei might be face-blind, so even if she saw this person's appearance it would be useless. It would be more convenient to wait for Matsuda and others to find the body and then conduct a further investigation.
Thinking of this, Xing Hai Ya's thoughts were distracted a little. He glanced at the screen of his mobile phone which had automatically turned off, as if he was looking at the person opposite him through the screen.
If it was Kudo, when faced with something like this, he would probably stop it without even thinking, right?
This is a conclusion that can be reached without much thought.
That's why they are different.
Xing Hai Ya leaned her head against the wall and continued to watch the farce downstairs. She thought to herself that she seemed to have forgotten something, while she used her fingers to trace her own annoying face on the dark screen of her mobile phone.
"Xinghai! Are you still listening?!" Conan, who was thirsty and asked Edogawa for a long time without being paid attention to, took a big sip of water. His voice was so penetrating that it brought back Xinghai Mei's thoughts that had drifted away.
You can tell he's very angry.
Xing Haiya belatedly let out a cry in response, and when her eyes fell down again, the fully-armed man seemed to be startled. He had retracted the fruit knife and was talking to another person in a low voice.
Xing Hai Ya was silent for a moment, then pressed the hang-up button decisively, blocking out all the words from the other end.
...It's really you, Kudo Shinichi.