Chapter 514 Anyway, if you don’t need money, just trust me
“It’s already afternoon time. Have you received any calls or letters from suspected robbers?”
“No, that’s really the case. , at least there will be some direction."
"Well...then do you think there will be any commercial rivals, or someone seeking revenge, taking advantage of the two of them?"
"Neither Guangming nor Hidechen worked in the group, especially Hidechen. Due to some reasons, he stayed at home all year round and had very little time to go out. I think it should not be..."
"Then, excuse me, is there a conflict between the two of them?"
"I have also imagined this kind of speculation. The two of them do have some differences over the years and often quarrel, but there should be no principles. It’s only right to have a conflict. After all, the two of them are good friends who grew up together. Guangming’s family has a close relationship with our family...”
In the bedroom, Mouri Kogoro and Hattori Heizo were surrounded by the elders. Beside Mendaosan's bedside, he was questioning and investigating step by step as a police detective. Seeing that no one noticed his movements, Conan secretly waved to Tang Ze.
The two people quietly left the bedroom. As soon as they opened the door, they almost bumped into Hattori Heiji who was almost leaning against the door.
"...It's you." Seeing the person in front of him clearly, Conan breathed a sigh of relief, then became a little speechless, "Although I do ask you to find a way to call Uncle Maori, but now What is going on? ”
The main point of his coming to Nagato's house was to get in touch with Nagato Hidetomi and Nagato Mitsuyo, two people who were suspected to be related to a case twenty years ago. As a result, as soon as he entered the house, he learned that his targets had both disappeared. , he feels very helpless now.
The focus of this trip is to solve the mystery of the past to avoid a situation like Mr. Yonehara Koko's happening again.
If he is forced to watch things happen before his eyes again, and nothing can stop him, then what is the point of coming here?
“How do I know!” Hattori Heiji, who lowered his voice, also widened his eyes, “The old man of the Nagato family wants to find an old friend who has lost contact. This is not an important request. I’ll look for me. Dad spent a long time trying to talk it through. I just came here not long ago..."
Thinking of the emails sent by Karasawa and Kudo respectively, Hattori Heiji adjusted his sweater and his expression became serious. : "Is it related to that matter?"
"It's hard to say." Conan shook his head, his brows also furrowed. "There are many possibilities. The news I got is that the person who tried to reveal the truth about the past on the Internet should be Nagato Hidetomi, the son of Nagato Dozo. But Judging from the tone of this letter, the other person involved, Nagato Mitsuyo, may not think so."
Compared to the police and detectives who have no clue, Conan who has grasped this information is a little vague. Speculative.
In order to cover up the truth of the past, in order to reveal the truth of the past, people are likely to make many extreme choices - both motives, he has encountered in many cases in the past.
Now, one of the two missing people plays the role of a whistleblower, while the other is the complete opposite. It is unpredictable what kind of conflicts will arise between them.
"Guangming, the conflict with Hidetomi..." Under Moori Kogoro's questioning, Nagato Dosan fell on the pillow and sighed regretfully, "Mr. Hattori has met my son Hidetomi. , You should know that he has a big scar on his face. Because of this wound, he dropped out of school after high school and started writing novels. The problem between the two of them came from that time. .”
Catching these sounds with his ears, Hattori Heiji looked back at the ajar door and nodded in the same way: "Because Mr. Nagato suddenly mentioned the inexplicable disappearance of two people, my father brought some police to check. I I’ve already inquired about it.
“Twenty years ago, a fire broke out in a nearby hotel. Nagato Hideomi and Nagato Mitsuomi, who were still high school students at the time, passed by the scene of the fire on their way home from school. Regardless of another person's obstruction, Nagato Hidetomi rushed into the sea of fire and rescued a little girl. His face was burned and left scars. It was basically disfigured due to the fire. "
While speaking, he looked solemnly at the stunned Conan and nodded.
This situation is mutually confirmed with Nagato Hideomi's message on the website.
“It seems that the fire twenty years ago is closely related to the two of them. Tangze also nodded and analyzed along this line of thinking, "I have seen many similar situations since I came to Tokyo. If Nagato Hideomi's message is true, then this is where the conflict between him and Nagato Mitsuomi lies. Nagato Hideomi's message on the Kaitou channel may very well be the straw that breaks the camel's back. ”
As he spoke, he raised his chin towards the room and motioned to Hinata Sachi, who was standing in the center of the room with a very anxious expression.
Douzo Nagato’s explanation happened to mention her.
"...The child that Inuko rescued from the fire is this girl, Hinata Yuki."
Hyuugaiki raised his head after coming back to his senses, and met the eyes of others. He forced a smile: "President, there is no need to mention this matter. The top priority is to find Hidetomi and the others. Even if there is no danger, if he disappears with Minister Guangming..."
"Still It's necessary to understand." Hattori Heizou nodded calmly and cast his sharp eyes in the direction of Hinata Yuki. "Miss Hinata, can you tell us your specific whereabouts in the past two days? "
This meant he was suspicious of her.
Hinata Sachi was stunned for a moment, gritted his teeth with some embarrassment and said: "Your guess is true... Since the president has been ill in bed recently, I have been going back and forth between Nagato's house and the company. Handling affairs for the president, conveying ideas, sorting out important documents and sending them to Nagato's house, all the while being picked up and dropped off by the company's driver. Moreover, I, I have already planned to..."
"Axun has already planned to marry Inuko. ." Nagato Dozo took over and raised his hand to stop Hattori Heizo from asking further questions about Hinata Yuki, "I will let her be responsible for these matters, and I also hope that she can adapt to life in the Nagato family as soon as possible, so she is doing this. She basically stayed in the mansion for two days. She had no reason and no time to do anything to them. "The elements are really complete. Kudo, your judgment is probably correct this time." Hattori Heiji, who had taken in all these contents, thought of the message in the email and touched his chin.
Marrying your childhood savior sounds like a good story, but if this savior is actually equated with the enemy who killed your family...
"We need to hurry up and find the two of them." Conan said in a deep voice, "Where are their rooms? Search them and try to find clues first."
"I do have an idea." Before the two detectives could start their own routine of rummaging through boxes and cabinets, Karasawa interrupted the spellcasting.
Although as a skilled RPG player, it is also a habit to rummage through boxes and cabinets when you have nothing to do, but RPG players rummage through boxes and cabinets for the sake of Sanguang, not to become a husky.
Remembering that he was still wearing the buff of a semi-immortal family background, Tang Ze cleared his throat without any scruples and began to make up his own reasoning.
"No matter what Nagato Hidetomi thinks, he has concealed the truth for twenty years. Unless there is any sudden stimulation or change, he should not suddenly think of going to Kaitou CH for help."
"If Nagato Komitsu is still stubborn, it is reasonable to make a request to the unpredictable Phantom Thieves. They have not been active for long. Going back further, Nagato Hideomi may not have heard of the Phantom Thieves." After thinking about it along Tangze's train of thought, Conan shook his head in disapproval.
"Indeed, the Phantom Thieves' influence is mainly in the Tokyo area. I haven't heard much news in Kansai." Hattori Heiji also agreed.
Karazawa shook his head firmly and insisted: "You should read more about the news on Phantom Thieves CH. Even if the Phantom Thieves are already so active, their method of completing 'change of heart' is secret after all, so tell them Asking for help is more like a prayer-like request than a request for help that actually gets a response - no matter how magical it is, it is just an anonymous bulletin board that anyone can enter."
In this regard, joker. I am very vocal.
Before Noah arrived, their website had been using keyword crawling and automatic ranking to determine the priority of change.
Using a voting system like this, where the person with the highest nomination is given priority, is a bit like the banishment method of pottery. Although it is difficult for someone to change their mind to be accidentally injured, this actually deviates from the original intention of setting up the website. Tangze didn't want to either, but he couldn't help it.
The Phantom Thieves want to use the website as their own portal to receive orders, but they cannot control what netizens think.
God knows that in the beginning, Xingchuanhui said "Let me change my mind, I don't want to study, and I don't want to lose weight" every day and "I think XXX, who has good grades, must have some disease. Can you please help me?" "Look, what's the point of working so hard" and other messages, which gave me a splitting headache.
"There is a certain truth." Hattori Heiji thought for a while and nodded slowly, "Maybe he just regards the Phantom Thieves as a group of people who can just find a temple to worship, or something like that. Comfort.”
"That's right, that's what it means. It doesn't cost anything anyway, just have some faith - many people who use the website will think so." Tangze nodded deeply, and then expressed his thoughts, "I think, the engagement with Hinata Yuki , may be the source of pressure that stimulates Nagato Hideomi. He has a relationship with Hinata Yuki, so when it comes to marriage, such principled deception as the truth about the fire will bring huge pressure to him. "
"So, what do you think is..." Conan, who felt that what Karasawa said was reasonable, looked over with questioning eyes.
"I think it is more likely that the two of them ran out on their own, or that one of them dragged the other out." Tang Ze, who chose his words very carefully, had an opposite tone of determination, " Do you want to consider some related locations? "For example, the place where the fire happened twenty years ago."
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"What do you mean?" Sitting in the hall. On the chair, Hinata Sachi, who had been silent for a long time while looking down at the folder in his hand, raised his head in disbelief.
"No offense, but if we assume that their disappearance is related to each other's conflicts, then we might gain something by going to the starting point of their conflicts." Tang Ze took a step forward and helped the two people who were embarrassed to explain the sources of off-field information in their hands. The detective said, "Even if they are not there, maybe they will return to the area because of the quarrel, and then they can find some clues."
Hyugako's eyes moved from Hattori Heiji's face to Tang Looking at his calm, slightly distant and gentle expression on Ze's face, his tense nerves slowly relaxed a little, and he loosened his grip on the document.
"Besides, you can't just sit here just because the police and detectives have taken over the case... That will make you feel worse." Sensing Hinata Sachi's emotional change, Karasawa reacted very Quick, "You really want to go find them, right? It's safer if we accompany you."
His straight back relaxed a little after what he said, and finally he no longer hesitated: " Well, I'll take you there. It's not very far from here, but I still feel like there's not much hope."
"Why do you say that?" Seeing Hinata Yuki finally pulled away from the state of the fire victim. When he came out, Hattori Heiji, who had made people angry with just one sentence, wiped his sweat and secretly gave Karasawa a thumbs up.
No wonder Kudo likes to drag Karasawa along to investigate... How much trouble can be saved by having such a friend who is proficient in conversational skills and has high emotional intelligence to help!
Being able to withdraw his attention from complicated entertainment and interpersonal relationships and devote himself wholeheartedly to the investigation of the case is really the ideal working condition for a detective. From this perspective, Tangze can be said to be An excellent choice as a detective's assistant.
Hattori Heiji, who had heard the saying "Karasawa = Watson" from Conan's complaints, secretly nodded.
"You will know when we get to the place." Handing the documents in his hands to other staff members of the Nagato family on the other side, Hinata Sachi stood up and said while arranging his suit, "If they ran there, they would be very conspicuous."
Twenty minutes later, they understood the meaning of Hinata Sachi's words.
"Artificial lake..." The corner of Conan's mouth twitched. Looking at the sparkling lake in front of him, he couldn't help but ask, "What do you mean here..."
Before Conan could say it Before he was given lines that deserved a beating, such as "destroy the evidence" and "buy the crime scene to cover up the crime", Karasawa used his toes to move him behind Hattori Heiji and took a step forward: "Was the fire that year very big? It is adjacent to the commercial district. If the impact was not huge, I don’t think anyone would give up its commercial value.”
Although it can bring another kind of income after being built into a landscape, the value of the shops is so high. If you create an attraction out of thin air in a certain location, the input-output ratio will be astonishing.
“You are right. Twenty years ago, the shops and houses here were very dense, and there were many Japanese-style houses with wooden structures in the entire block. Those who lost their loved ones in this disaster, It’s just me who was young.” Hinata Yuki’s eyes dimmed and he looked at the mirror-like surface of the lake, “That’s why I feel that I am very lucky to meet Hideomi.”
“ What is the scale of the casualties?" Hattori Heiji asked without continuing her words.
"There are about 50 people who died. The structure of the houses is like this, and it involves hotels and residences. Some of them are tourists whose identities have not been identified yet... If we want to talk about the people injured by the fire, then the patients with minor injuries and serious injuries may reach More than 200." Hinata Xing's eyes became more and more sad, "Hideomi can also be counted among the injured."
"That's it." Conan nodded.
After such a major disaster occurs, the commercial attributes of the neighborhood will inevitably be greatly reduced, so converting it into an artificial lake as a memorial built on the site is also a way to deal with it.
Just like this lake, which covers a large area, they can see several bouquets of flowers as far as they can see. In 20 years, only children like Hinata Yuki can grow up. It's obviously not enough to heal everyone's pain.
"There are a lot of flowers for commemoration, as well as sacrifices." Hattori Heiji also saw those things, turned his eyes slightly, and looked at Karasawa.
Soon realizing what he meant, Karasawa walked closer to Hinata Yuki and said loudly: "If Mr. Nagato Hidetomi appeared near here, it would indeed be more conspicuous. I remember they said that his face There is always a bandage covering the face, right?”
“Yes, Xiuchen has always refused to undergo plastic surgery, and the scars on his face are very eye-catching...”
“Well, Then let's walk around here and ask the people nearby and the patrol police in charge of security. At present, no one has figured out their movements, maybe..."
He said it. With some feasible words of comfort, Karasawa used his height, which was slightly half a head taller than Hinata Yuki, to cover up the two unscrupulous detectives behind him who had already begun to look through the letter on his white chrysanthemum.
Hey, it’s not easy to praise a detective or two detectives.
As for Xingchuan, why isn't he in place yet? Save him, save him, brother——
Maybe he heard the cry in Tangze's heart. After they walked a quarter of the way around the lake shore, they stepped on it for about a few seconds. After a hundred meters, the familiar voice finally sounded.
"Hey, Akira, how could you...? Oh, it's you."
When Conan hurriedly stuffed a postcard with a message back into the bouquet, a shadow appeared Just throw it into him.
Conan, who was also not unfamiliar with this voice, shrank his shoulders, quickly patted the pollen on his hands, and stood up straight.
Sure enough, Goro Akechi's handsome face looked down at him quietly.
I don’t know if it was due to the backlight, but his face was shrouded in shadow. Although there was a hint of smile, there was a lingering sense of gloom.
If Xingchuan Hui could hear his comments, he would answer him with a fairy-like smile. This is a resentment that is not settled and worked overtime.
"We meet again, this, 'Kudo Shinichi of the West', and Conan-kun." Looking at the person who caused him to run around and work overtime, the knife hidden in Hoshikawa Teru's smile was Really very evil, "What, are you trying to steal business from me, you two?"
(End of this chapter)