Chapter 421 Invitation from Moon Shadow Island
"I told you, it won't be a problem. I am a detective after all." Mouri Kogoro, who was holding a mobile phone, spoke in a pretendingly humble tone. , I can’t even hide the look on my face.
The investigation of the entire incident was very smooth. I restored the truth of the entire case in a basement, and the worse did not happen. It was unanimously praised by the family of the deceased...
The most important thing is that I feel like my brain has become flexible again.
Is it the effect of quitting drinking? Will the results be so quick?
He pondered uncertainly, raised his head, leaned back on the office chair, and turned the chair leisurely.
If he could light up a cigarette at this time and take a puff slowly, he would be as happy as a god...
Thinking of this, he looked up with regret.
"It's useless to look at me." Tangze, who was flipping through the book, replied ruthlessly, "I have made an appointment to learn simple cooking today."
"It's really rare. After finishing a well-paid commission, it should be time to relax." Touching his forehead, Mouri Kogoro complained unhappily, "Why does it feel like going to school?"
He had to be watched while studying, his grades had to be checked, and he had to attend cram schools that were not sure whether they would be effective...
As a generation older, he once again had a serious sense of identity inversion.
"You're right, so the phone call is over, it's time to start." Immediately dismissed his delusion of laziness, Karasawa closed the book with a "snap" and looked at it with a sharp gaze He passed by and said, "As you just said, you are a famous detective. Isn't it natural for a famous detective to solve a case? Is there any need to celebrate it specially?"
Maoli was speechless for a moment. Kogoro rubbed the back of his head, wanting to refute that this time was different, but for a while he didn't know where to start.
Yes, he has solved many cases that are more complicated and dramatic than this. He really has no position to celebrate such a commission that ended in an ordinary way...
But, but...
"Okay, come on, I've brought all the dishes." Under Mao Lilan's excited eyes, Tang Ze began to roll up his sleeves, "I explained it before , I mainly learn Chinese food, which may be a bit difficult for beginners, but it doesn’t matter, everyone can learn the simplest part.”
No, no, no one can. You can’t even make tomato scrambled eggs, right?
Looking at Karasawa starting to roll up his cuffs in a regular manner, Mouri Kogoro winced secretly.
It sounds not simple at all, Chinese cuisine or something...
"Duringling——"
Just when he was about to quit, the cell phone he had just put down rang again.
Moori Kogoro felt like he was being pardoned. He glanced at the unfamiliar caller ID, quickly grabbed the phone, and quickly answered the phone: "Hello, this is Moori Kogoro..."
< br>As he spoke, he used his eyes to signal Tangze, who felt particularly oppressed, to stop leaning closer.
Look, the detective business is busy, so it’s not like I’m making excuses, right?
However, what came to his ears was not the client's self-introduction or information explaining the case, but a somewhat strange, processed voice.
"There are still two days until the night of the full moon." A hoarse and deep male voice came from the receiver. As soon as he spoke, it was a completely nonsense line, "The investigation fee of 500,000 yen has been transferred to you. account, please be sure to come..."
If you don't agree, you can transfer money directly. This is because you are sure not to let the detective refuse...
Mouri Kogoro frowned slightly. He always had an instinctive feeling of something bad about the client who was so pretentious and did not explain the case at all, and directly transferred money without saying a word.
People who don't want to cause big troubles wouldn't do this.
"Wait a moment, sir, please wait a moment." Before the other party said the next sentence again, he hurriedly asked, "Who are you? I'm sorry, could you please tell me what exactly I want to investigate? What is it?"
After a husky laugh that could not be told whether it was a sigh or emotion, the person on the other side of the phone said: "I am Keiji Aso from Moon Shadow Island."
As soon as he finished speaking. , the other party hung up the phone without waiting for him to ask again.
When the "click" sound of hanging up came, Mouri Kogoro said "hello" twice in disbelief, but the call that had been terminated could not give him any response.
"This is really weird..." He frowned and checked the caller information. He tried to call back again. However, judging from the busy signal, the other party either put the receiver aside and did not put it back at all, or simply unplugged the phone line. .
You made up your mind not to call back...
"What's wrong, uncle?" Conan suddenly raised his head and reacted a little faster than Tang Ze, "Yes, there is Is there a new commission? "
He was worried that he had no excuse to contact joker and ask him about his cooperation with Kaitou Kidd. Now he has a new commission. Isn't he just dozing off? Pillow?
“I don’t know.” Mouri Kogoro frowned uncertainly and looked at the phone number on the screen of his mobile phone. “He hung up after saying a few words and said he would remit 500,000 to me. account, and then said that he was Keiji Aso of Moon Shadow Island..."
"Moon Shadow Island..." Mao Lilan read the name again, "Aso Keiji...ah, that's right."
She turned back and went to the paper box on the bookcase that contained various letters and quickly flipped through it. After searching for a while, he quickly took out an envelope.
"That's it. I showed you the letter from last week. Didn't you say that it had no beginning and no end, and you didn't know what it was about, so you ignored it?" She said, He opened the envelope and took out a letter.
Tang Ze glanced at the letter in Mao Lilan's hand with a shocked expression, and when no one noticed his movements, he quickly glanced at Conan's head.
Yueying Island, how could it be Yueying Island?
It stands to reason that this is a case that happened in a very early stage... Although it can't be considered the middle and late stages now, it shouldn't be at this time.
This stitched world where nothing is right is really weird.
In other words, the current version of Conan is already a new version of the ship that has been strengthened by himself. If he encounters the Moon Shadow Island incident, how will he deal with this irreversible fall into the abyss? What about the case?
Don’t tell me, Tangze really became a little curious after asking this question.
While he was staring at Conan and wondering, Mouri Kogoro had already taken the letter that Mourilan had found and opened it to read carefully.
"Next full moon night, shadows will disappear again on Moon Shadow Island. Please investigate this matter. Keiji Aso." Looking at the words cut and pasted from newspaper type on the letter paper, Mouri Kogoro read it out while holding back. I couldn't help but complain, "Is it the trend started by the Phantom Thief of Heart? I feel like there are more and more of these newspaper clippings and collage letters..."
"That's because it's very common. A way to avoid investigation, right?" Conan curled his lips indifferently and just asked, "So are you going to take a look, Uncle Maoli?"
He said this and already took out his own in anticipation. Phone, ready to edit an email to joker.
Tangze, who silently paid attention to his movements: "..."
Hey, fellow detective, do you know that you really look like a mole now?
(End of this chapter)