Stay away from Conan.

Chapter 114 Challenge Book

"What do you mean?"

Miwako Sato was a little puzzled by what Gao Yuan said, "You mean Kudo's reasoning, is there a problem?"

"Do not."

Gao Yuan shook his head, "There is nothing wrong with Kudo-san's reasoning, it can even be said to be perfect."

"Hey?"

Regarding Gao Yuan's inconsistent words, Sato Miwako and Mo Lilan were a little at a loss, and did not understand Gao Yuan's meaning at all, but Kudo Shinichi seemed to have sensed the hidden meaning in Gao Yuan's words, and frowned slightly.

"However, it is limited to the events that happened today."

Gao Yuan added.

"What do you mean? Didn't this incident happen today?"

Mao Lilan was puzzled.

"Mr. Wise means, the incident half a year ago?"

Kudo Shinichi already understood Gao Yuan's meaning and said.

"That's right. To be precise, the incident half a year ago was the beginning of today's incident. Because of the first short circuit half a year ago, Ms. Yukari thought of this plan."

Gao Yuan explained.

"However, the time half a year ago was just an accident, right?"

Miyano Yukari on the side said.

"That's right, because the surveillance camera outside the house was caught in the rain and caused a short circuit, no matter how you look at it, it must be an accident."

Miwako Sato echoed.

"Is it really?"

Gao Yuan said, "You know, in the incident half a year ago, and today's incident, there is a key prerequisite to stop the operation of the ventilator after a short circuit and power failure!"

"Emergency battery failure!"

Kudo Shinichi suddenly realized, "Even if the power is cut off due to a short circuit, as long as the emergency battery is still there, the ventilator can still operate. But the emergency battery failed half a year ago, and today!"

"To be precise, it's not that everything went wrong, but the emergency battery problem hasn't been resolved since the incident half a year ago."

Gao Yuan said, looked at Miyano Yukari, and asked, "Ms. Yukari, I would like to ask, why?"

"We've gone to place an order, but it's been a long time coming."

Miyano Yukari said.

"But that's weird."

Gao Yuan said, looking at Kudo Shinichi and Sato Miwako.

"Kudou-san, Officer Sato, remember when we first entered Katsuyo Miyano's house to check the emergency power supply of the ventilator, and asked the caretaker Makoto Yamashita, what did he answer?"

Speaking of this, Kudo Shinichi also recalled the scene at that time. At that time, he, Takato, and Yamashita Makoto followed Officer Sato to the house of Katsuyo Miyano. When Officer Sato explained what happened, he asked Why is there no emergency battery on the artificial ventilator?

At that time, Makoto Yamashita replied: "The battery is broken, and it has been repaired."

Thinking of this, Kudo Shinichi was stunned for a moment—at that time, he was all focused on checking the tripping problem, and didn't pay much attention to it, so when he talked with Miyano Yukari just now, he didn't realize the subtleties of it. difference.

"That's right, what Makoto Yamashita said was 'the battery is broken, take it for repair', but what Ms. Yukari said was 'the order has been ordered, but it has not arrived'."

Gao Yuan explained.

"Considering that Officer Sato forced Mr. Makoto Yamashita to stay, his emotions may not be so calm, so that what he said at the time may have been just casual words. Therefore, in order to confirm this issue, I specifically asked Officer Takagi to investigate Yukari The ventilator purchase channel of the lady’s home. After all, Ms. Miyano Katsuyo is not using an ordinary household ventilator, but the type commonly used in hospitals, which is not easy to buy.”

"Yes, the ventilator used by my mother was purchased after I asked the hospital for help."

Miyano Yukari said.

"More specifically, it is the channel of this Mihua General Hospital."

Gao Yuan said, "Because of the particularity of the ventilator purchase channel, it is obviously not that easy to replace or repair the emergency battery. The easiest way is to contact the manufacturer through the original channel, so I asked my acquaintances in the hospital to investigate. See if there is a record of repairing or ordering emergency batteries."

After a pause, Gao Yuan looked at Miyano Yukari.

"But the result of the investigation is that there is no relevant record."

"How could it be! Didn't Mr. Yamashita say that he had entrusted the hospital to order it!"

Miyano Yukari said in surprise.

"Wait a minute! Do you want to say Mr. Yamashita..."

Soon, Miyano Yukari realized Gao Yuan's meaning.

"Because the incident half a year ago was itself very strange."

Gao Yuan said, "The outdoor surveillance camera actually short-circuited due to the rain, and it happened that the emergency battery of the ventilator had a problem. Two seemingly coincidental conditions caused the incident half a year ago."

"Because after that incident, I thought of using..."

"But you still entrust Mr. Yamashita to order batteries."

Miyano Yukari was about to explain, but was interrupted by Gao Yuan and asked, "And, Ms. Yukari, don't you find something strange? In your plan, you have already arranged the mechanism, waiting for Sawada Osamu to turn on the switch. But then there is a problem, after your mechanism is arranged, you can’t move it, that is to say, your black underwear has been hanging on your balcony all the time! So, as a regular visitor to you Mr. Makoto Yamashita, you will always notice something is wrong in the long run!"

"A set of black underwear is always hung on the balcony and never put away. Anyone who finds out about it will find it strange."

Miwako Sato thought for a moment, nodded and said.

"This kind of thing lasted for half a year. If Makoto Yamashita feels strange, go check it out, or kindly remind Ms. Yukari, then the whole plan will be seen through."

Gao Yuan said.

"But in fact, this plan lasted perfectly for half a year without any accidents. It wasn't until Osamu Sawada stole the underwear today that the mechanism was touched."

Kudo Shinichi said, "This is unreasonable. Either he really came to Ms. Miyano's house and didn't care about anything other than nursing work; or he actually found out, but chose to remain silent!"

"That's right, combined with these clues, doesn't Mr. Yamashita look very suspicious?"

Gao Yuan said, "So, I had some ideas and conducted some investigations on Mr. Makoto Yamashita. As a result, I found an interesting thing—seven years ago, when Makoto Yamashita was a student, he caused a traffic accident."

"Seven years ago! The traffic accident that Ms. Miyano Katsushiro encountered seems to have happened seven years ago!"

Kudo Shinichi still remembered what Miyano Yukari said before, and immediately connected the two.

"Wait a minute, you don't want to say that the person who knocked down my mother was Mr. Yamashita!"

Miyano Yukari said in surprise, "This is impossible. I have learned about Mr. Yamashita's accident, which is not the same as my mother's accident! The person who knocked down my mother and escaped has not been caught yet! "

"About this, after Akechi-san told me, I asked Yumi from the Ministry of Transportation to retrieve the files of the two accidents."

At this time, Takagi She came in and said, "After reading the case files, Mr. Zhizhi found out..."

"No, needless to say!"

Suddenly, Yamashita Makoto also came in from the door and stopped Takagi Shebu from speaking, "I did everything."

Makoto Yamashita admitted.

"At that time, after I knocked down Ms. Katsuyo Miyano, I drove for a long distance in a panic, and then hit another car, which caused the second accident. And because of the second accident, the previous The impact marks were completely destroyed, and no casualties were caused. In order to reduce the punishment, I only admitted the second accident."

"Then, you became Ms. Miyano Katsuyo's caretaker because of redemption."

Gao Yuan was not surprised by this, and said.

"Yes. Although I have not been punished by law, I have always lived in guilt for knocking down Ms. Katsushiro. So after inquiring from many sources, I found out that the person I knocked down was Ms. Katsushiro Miyano. And Just because Ms. Yukari needed someone to take care of Ms. Katsushiro, in order to atone for my sins, I became Ms. Katsushiro's caretaker."

Makoto Yamashita said.

"In this case, why do you..."

After listening to these words, Mao Lilan asked very puzzled.

"Because of such long-term care, my own daughter will have the idea of ​​'if the mother dies, she will be free', let alone an outsider."

Gao Yuan said helplessly.

In this regard, Makoto Yamashita couldn't deny it, and admitted everything he had done-whether it was deliberately destroying the waterproof function of the surveillance camera, or destroying the emergency battery, in order to create an accident to make Ms. Miyano Katsuyo die.Still after the failure of this operation, I found that Miyano Yukari had the same idea, so she just kept silent, waiting for the accident to happen.

So far, this incident has finally been completely resolved, and the settlement panel also appeared in front of Gao Yuan.

"After the reasoning is over, the case begins to close"

"Comprehensive evaluation of the case: S"

"Knowledge: S"

"Logic: S"

"Observation: S"

"The settlement is completed, the overall score reaches S, the reward is 50, and additional rewards will be issued, please choose:"

"Reward [-]: Professional Knowledge"

"Reward [-]: Disposable Items"

"Reward Three: Special Items II"

"Detective Rating: Assistant Detective"

"Bounty: 570"

As a result, because of a series of incidents caused by a bus idiot, Takato, Kudo Shinichi, and Mori Ran completely missed the opportunity to eat at the restaurant they were going to at the beginning. After everything was over, it was already a big night up!
The three people who walked out of the hospital only remembered at this time that they hadn't eaten since noon and they were almost starving to death, so the three of them found a restaurant at random and started eating.

"It's all because of the underwear thief. If he hadn't done something like that, making things so complicated and making people sad, maybe Ms. Yukari wouldn't have done such a thing!"

Mao Lilan said angrily while eating.

"However, the ending is still good. Although I don't know what happened, Ms. Miyano Katsushiro was rescued and even recovered her spontaneous breathing. If this continues, Ms. Katsushiro should gradually get better."

Kudo Shinichi said.

"However, this time it is really thanks to Mr. Wise."

Mao Lilan said, and glanced at Kudo Shinichi, "It's not like someone who left him to investigate, but the incident hasn't been thoroughly investigated yet!"

"Okay, stop bickering."

Seeing that the two seemed to be bringing the topic to him, Gao Yuan immediately interjected, "Don't you just happen to be going on a school trip tomorrow? Be happy!"

"I don't want to go."

Kudo Shinichi said, "It's a waste of time. Compared with this, today's incident made me understand that I need to learn more from actual cases and understand human nature and the world!"

Really?I hope you will be able to say this kind of thing so hard on your school trip next year—Gao Yuan looked at Kudo Shinichi helplessly, thinking so.

Soon, after dinner, the three of them went home. Mao Lilan was excited and had to prepare for tomorrow's school trip, while Gao Yuan and Kudo Shinichi went back to their respective homes.

After returning home, Gao Yuan began to choose this reward, because he had obtained both "one-off items" and "special items", this time he wanted to see what the "professional knowledge" that he hadn't selected would be, so Gao Yuan chose "professional knowledge" this time.

Soon, new words appeared.

"Name: Magician"

"Special effects: You have mastered a certain kind of magic knowledge that you know. At the same time, you have also learned the corresponding knowledge of using "stars (the detective's monocle)" to perform magic."

Seeing this, Gao Yuan suddenly felt that a lot of knowledge had flooded into his mind--about the knowledge about "Disguise Technique", he had only a simple understanding at first, but now he has a deeper understanding, which was originally incomprehensible. I seem to be able to understand most of the parts I don't understand.

But more importantly——

Gao Yuan took out the monocle named "Star" from his pocket - this was a reward for the challenge mission, or an item that was given directly without choice.

Gao Yuan had never used it before, but now that he had the relevant knowledge, Gao Yuan suddenly discovered that this thing is a bit powerful!

Thinking of this, Gao Yuan pinched the lens of the glasses, then thought about the knowledge he had just learned, and flicked it lightly. The metal chain on the outside of the glasses suddenly became longer and became a length of about two meters. A long metal chain, but the star-shaped ornament at the end of the chain has not changed.

Pull it back again, and the chain shortens back to its original length again.

Looking at the monocle in his hand, Gao Yuan suddenly tossed it up by tossing a coin, caught it when it fell back to his eyes, and put it on his right eye——

Sure enough, I underestimated the special rewards for this challenge mission!

On the other side, Kudo Shinichi, who came back home, walked through the iron gate, just opened the door of the house, and suddenly saw a white envelope, which fell in front of his eyes, picked it up, and saw only one line of words printed on the envelope : A challenge letter to Kudo Shinichi.

Leaning against the door wall, Kudo Shinichi opened the envelope and looked at the letter inside, which was also printed:
"During the school trip, one of your classmates will be kidnapped. If you can protect him well, you will win. If you can't protect him well, then I will win. At that time, please dismantle your reputation as a high school student detective. This It's you and me one-on-one, but I can give you a hint: the kidnapping location will be on the ship."

Signed below: "KIDNAPPER (kidnapper)".

After reading this letter, Kudo Shinichi couldn't help showing a smile—"Interesting!"

(End of this chapter)