Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 1290: Car Jumping Master

20 minutes later, Kudo Yusaku finally seized the opportunity, broke away from the enthusiastic fans, came to the corner of the corridor and met Yukiko.

"It finally came out..."

"Yukiko, please leave here quickly. It looks like those students are going to call more people over."

Kudo Yusaku wiped the sweat from his forehead and talked to Yukiko.

Yukiko slowly took off her sunglasses, her eyes were a little angry, and she said unhappily: "Isn't that what you asked for?"

"You clearly had a chance to come out 10 minutes ago, but because those female college students wanted to take a photo with you, you wasted more time, right?"

Kudo Yusaku looked at Yukiko's pouty face and smiled softly, "Ah~ Are you jealous?"

"No!"

Yukiko scolded, put her sunglasses back on, and turned to walk towards the exit.

As the world's top living best-selling mystery writer, Kudo Yusaku often faces such situations, and Yukiko understands that.

But one time, Kudo Yusaku attended a cocktail party hosted by a publisher and went home with another woman's lipstick print on his face.

Yukiko could no longer tolerate this and ran back to Japan to seek comfort from her biological son.

Of course, the misunderstanding was resolved afterwards. It was because Kudo Yusaku was drunk by the publisher, and those slutty girls took advantage of his drunkenness and kissed him without permission.

After that incident, Yukiko also made three rules with Kudo Yusaku: they could drink during social events, but they must never get drunk and must "keep their chastity."

"Really..."

"I thought you were a very honest person. I retired from the entertainment industry at such a young age. If I had known, I would not have retired from the entertainment industry. This would have given you a sense of crisis..."

Yukiko walked forward, muttering in grievance.

Yusaku Kudo looked at his wife's back, and there was a bit of pity in his eyes behind the lenses.

Yukiko's influence declined rapidly after she retired from the entertainment industry at the age of 20. In addition, it was only a little over a year since she became popular and retired from the entertainment industry. She left behind few works and has little fame abroad.

Therefore, Yukiko used various methods to increase her presence in front of the media, such as pretending that she could reason so that she could be worthy of being a world-class mystery novelist.

The title of "Baroness of the Dark Night" was proposed to declare one's own "sovereignty".

If Yukiko had not chosen to retire from the entertainment industry back then, with her acting talent, she might have had the chance to win an Oscar for Best Actress now.

But if that were the case, Shinichi probably wouldn't have been born...

Kudo Yusaku understood that Yukiko had made a great sacrifice.

Although he is now a world-renowned writer and has achieved greater success than before, he must never let down the woman in front of him.

Kudo Yusaku thought to himself and was about to walk up to say a few gentle words to comfort her, but he saw a note stuck on the back of Yukiko's right elbow.

"Wait a minute, Yukiko..."

"Ah? Didn't you say you wanted to leave here quickly? Are you reluctant to leave again?"

Yukiko said something angrily, but Kudo Yusaku did not respond. Instead, he pulled the note directly from behind her elbow.

"Look, someone has put this thing on you."

When Yukiko saw the note in Kudo Yusaku's hand, she was stunned for a moment.

The next second, she remembered that she bumped into a woman when she came out of the venue. It was probably at that time...

"What's written on it?" Yukiko asked.

"Let me see..." Kudo Yusaku looked at the small words on it and read: "Calm London's anger and let us drink Arrack together."

"Is this gone?"

Yukiko found it a little unbelievable that the content of the note was so short and didn't sound like it had any specific meaning.

Kudo Yusaku frowned slightly and said calmly: "This is a secret code..."

"signal?"

"Yes..." Kudo Yusaku looked up at the end of the corridor, "But there is no time to explain now. Let's leave here first, and then I will tell you."

Yukiko followed Kudo Yusaku's gaze and saw another large group of students about to arrive at the battlefield.

The two of them quickly left through the side door and came outside the school. Kudo Yusaku put on a cowboy hat and then explained the content of the code.

"The location on the code refers to the Port of London, India and Millwall District, the wine warehouse."

Yukiko looked a little confused, and obviously hadn't caught up with Kudo Yusaku's train of thought. "Wait a minute, how can you be so sure that this means London Port? It can't be... somewhere else?"

Kudo Yusaku smiled slightly, "Of course I would conclude that, because this code is almost the same as the one 10 years ago."

"To calm London's anger, the ship sank its anchor into the water, indicating that there is a ship there."

"Plus, when London is mentioned, it means the Port of London."

"The latter sentence was not there before, but it is also easier to interpret..."

Kudo Yusaku's glasses shone with wisdom as he elegantly interpreted: "Arrack is a wine mainly produced in Southeast Asia. There are three districts in the Port of London, and only 'India and Millwall' contains the names of Southeast Asian countries."

"Plus the word 'drinking', it means that it is a liquor storage warehouse in the area."

Yukiko nodded thoughtfully, then asked, "So you mean, someone wants to meet us at that place?"

"I'm afraid so."

"Who is he?"

"Um……"

Kudo Yusaku pondered for a moment, and a hint of reminiscence flashed in his eyes.

"The ghost of a magician..."

……

Blichester Township.

Brigham Young University, Reception Room, 5:40pm.

Regarding the murder of Ingels, a researcher at the Astronomical Research Institute, the investigation had to be put on hold temporarily because the suspect, Elena Sera, could not be summoned in person for the time being.

Neither the British police nor the Japanese side can obtain Sera Elena's current information.

In the end, Kaito Kuroba and Conan could only draw a portrait of the criminal based on their dictation, and the police later planned to issue a wanted notice based on the portrait.

In addition to this case, Conan and Hakuba Detective are more concerned about the Hades incident in London.

While waiting for the latest clues from Xiaolan regarding the secret code investigation, Detective Baima has already called Scotland Yard.

In order to deal with this crisis, London has dispatched all police forces to carry out security deployment in large public places in central London and surrounding areas.

But even so, Hades' appearance has changed many times during the police's pursuit, and the old method of arresting people based on criminal portraits is difficult to work.

Moreover, there are many places where events are held at the same time, and many large public places cannot arrange temporary security checks due to many objective factors.

Hakuba Tan learned about the situation, but did not keep it to himself. Instead, he passed the information to Conan and Kuroba Kaito.

Kuroba Kaito didn't care about this situation. It was not the first time that the police had no way to deal with criminals, including him, the Kaito Kid.

He was just thinking about when he could get rid of Conan so that he could call Qin Zhibo to report the situation here.

I don't know how the uncle's progress has been this afternoon?

Just when the reception room was silent, the phone in Kuroba Kaito's pocket suddenly vibrated.

hum-

Conan quickly looked over, and Hakuba was a little slower and turned to look at Kuroba Kaito.

Kuroba Kaito had no choice but to take out his phone and answer it.

"Hello? Xiaolan..." "What? You have found the last two clues?"

After these words were spoken, Conan and Hakuba Tan immediately perked up.

Kuroba Kaito was also smart enough to turn on the speakerphone mode so that the other two could also hear what was going on on the call.

"It's like this. Masumi, Dad, the Doctor and I went to Elephant and Castle Station again this afternoon and found a man with a briefcase."

"This man said that someone hired him to keep walking in front of the station. Plus, there was an 'Identity' on his suitcase, so we suspected that the person who hired him was Hades."

"Masumi found the letter 'U' on the inside of the man's trouser knee..."

Conan and Hakuba, who were listening on the phone, heard the word "Identity" and the word "case", and they thought of "A Case of Identity", the "Identity Case" in Sherlock Holmes, also known as the Case of the Missing Groom.

In this article, Holmes formally proposed the idea of ​​observing a man's knees when meeting him for the first time.

But it's not easy for this person called "Sera Masumi" to think of this...

"Later, we found an ornament with several bells with letters on them near the Meissen China shop on the boutique flea market."

"You're still so pure. Based on the words 'A study in scarlet' above, I guess the clue is a red line, so it's the letter R..."

Conan and Hakuba frowned and raised their chins in sync, drawing mind maps in their minds.

Currently, all the letters prompted in the code are T, N, A, A, S, U, and R, which correspond to exactly 7 sentences of code.

Can these seven letters form a place?

What else can we form besides Satan by adding u and r?

Suddenly, Hakuba Tan and Conan were both shocked and thought of another possibility.

"SATURN..."

"It's Saturn."

Hakuba Tan was the first to speak, and Conan could only wait and see what this guy had to say.

Bai Ba Tan glanced at "Kudo Shinichi" who didn't intend to deduce, and continued: "If you only use the letter A, it's the English word for Saturn."

"unless……"

Detective Bai Ma did not continue speaking because it was obvious that Hadas's crime scene could not be on Saturn.

At this time, Kuroba Kaito was stunned and suddenly thought of what Qin Zhibo said this morning.

Ingels is calculating when humans can directly observe an unknown planet by looking at the orbital impacts of Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus.

However, the impact of unknown planets on the orbits of the nine planets is in reverse order, starting from the outermost Pluto, one by one, until all the planets are affected.

Only then will the stars truly return to their positions.

After Uranus, the next planet to be affected is Saturn…

At this time, Sera's voice came from the speakerphone.

She said calmly, "Unless this Saturn does not represent the location of the crime, but the time of the crime."

"Saturn's name comes from Saturn, the god of agriculture in Roman mythology, and Saturn's day is Saturday."

"That is tomorrow..."

When these words came out, everyone on the other end of the phone was shocked.

"To-tomorrow?"

"But there are only 6 hours left until tomorrow, and the code doesn't say where exactly we are or what's going on..."

Kogoro Mori and Dr. Agasa summarized the current serious situation one after another.

Conan and Hakuba are well aware of the seriousness of the matter, but now the content of the code seems to have been cracked, and these may be the only clues left by Hades.

"In that case, Conan and I will go back now to see if there are any clues that we have missed..."

Kuroba Kaito picked up the phone and answered it, giving a shot of confidence to Mao Li Ran who was feeling a little lost on the other end.

Bai Ma Tan also said: "Then I will go back tonight..."

Before he finished speaking, the phone in his trouser pocket rang.

Bai Ma Tan picked up the phone and heard something on the other end that made his expression suddenly change.

"What? Found it!"

"where is it?"

"……I see."

Bai Ma Tan hung up the phone with a serious expression. After a few seconds of silence, he said with a struggling look in his eyes.

"I'm not going back to London yet..."

Kuroba Kaito asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

Bai Matan's expression froze, his eyes were slightly stunned, and after a moment he shook his head slowly.

"It's just some things that I have to investigate as a detective..."

……

After leaving Blythchester University, Conan and Kuroba Kaito took the last bus back to London.

Although Hakuba decided not to return to London, he still told the two, especially Kuroba Kaito, that there were the latest clues about the Hades case and they must tell him.

Kuroba Kaito agreed on the surface, but in his heart he was saying, "Who cares about you?"

The two sat in an empty bus, Conan sat on the outside and Kuroba Kaito sat on the inside by the window.

The two of them didn't speak along the way, and they were both thinking about the problems they would face next.

Conan had a lot of things to think about, including clues about the Hades case and hints about why Michael appeared in the restaurant and sent a secret code to Mouri Ran and the others.

Has he been following Xiaolan and the others since they came out of the airport yesterday?

Damn it~

Since you knew that I went to Blichester Town with this guy named Kuroba Kaito, why didn't you come to find us?

Conan’s current idea is to seek an opportunity to talk to Michael.

Although last time I learned from "Conan" in the parallel world that Haibara Ai's brother-in-law is someone else, not Michael.

But he still felt that since the other party saved himself and Haibara Ai twice, he definitely had no ill intentions.

"Hey, you know..."

Conan was just about to try to have a conversation with Kuroba Kaito who was sitting next to him to see if he could get some information out of him.

But when I turned around, I found that Kuroba Kaito had opened the bus window at some point, and half of his body had quietly slipped out of the car.

"Hey!"

"What are you doing?!"

As soon as Conan finished speaking, Kuroba Kaito jumped and flew out of the window of the moving bus.

His flying body just happened to hit the lamppost beside the street. He hugged it tightly with both hands, trying to relieve the impact, but he still couldn't help but groan in his chest.

But fortunately, it landed safely.

Conan stuck his head out of the window of the moving bus and watched Kuroba Kaito getting farther and farther away from him.

But this was a moving bus, and if he jumped out rashly with his small body, he would definitely get hurt.

There was nothing he could do. He could only look at Kuroba Kaito who was waving at him with a smile from behind and roared in anger and helplessness.

"Damn it!"