Stay away from Conan.

Chapter 1731 Clear Intent to Kill

Last night, in addition to thinking about the secret code, Conan also thought about Xiaolong's current situation -

In the situation where Mr. Fire Dragon is likely to choose to take action, thinking about the people who currently know that he is a substitute, in this mansion, besides himself and Uncle Maori, there are Xiaolong's mother Ms. Meiling and the driver Mr. Haoli.

Among them, Ms. Meiling, as Xiaolong's mother, would not take the initiative to disclose this matter, and the driver Mr. Haoli...

Since Ms. Meiling trusts him, let's just consider him as a trustworthy person.

So apart from these two, Conan can only treat everyone else except these two as people who need to be guarded against, or at least not trust them absolutely.

Therefore, if the situation is like this, Conan realized that he needed to guard against situations in which he might be attacked from all sides, so naturally, he secretly made some arrangements in some places last night.

For example, just like this luxury car in front of me now——

Last night, Conan borrowed some ash from the fireplace in the living room and sprinkled it around the car.

After all, if they regard Mr. Haoli as someone they can trust, then the vehicle he is in charge of may also become the place where the other party will take action.

Judging from the current situation, the dust around the vehicle was scattered by itself in the middle of last night, which means that this pair of footprints were left after that.

Moreover, judging from the size and outline of the footprints, they are completely different from Mr. Haoli's shoe prints.

Therefore, from the late night of yesterday to the early morning of today, normally no one except Mr. Haoli should have left footprints here, but now it seems...

  It could only be that someone else with ulterior motives tampered with the car!

Thinking of this, Conan looked at the driver, Mr. Haoli, who was standing next to the car, with a serious expression and said to him:

"Mr. Houli, could you please check inside the hood?"

So, after hearing Conan's words, although Mr. Houli knew that the person in front of him was not Young Master Xiaolong, because he was arranged by the famous detective Mr. Mouri Kogoro to be the Young Master's substitute, out of respect for Mr. Mouri Kogoro, he naturally listened to Conan's words seriously.

So, after listening to Conan's words, Mr. Haoli decisively opened the engine hood of the car with the vertical logo of a flying goddess on the front and began to inspect the engine.

In this regard, the butler Sijo noticed this and felt a little confused. Why was the driver Haoli wasting so much time when he was in such a hurry? It seemed that when he was about to say something to him -

"This, this is!"

Before the butler could speak, the driver, Mr. Haoli, started shouting in panic at the situation inside the car after opening the hood:

"The brake pipe has been unscrewed! It's still leaking oil!"

"what!"

  For a moment, the housekeeper Si Tiao was also shocked and angry when he heard this:

"What, what's going on?"

"If the oil leaks out, the brakes will fail. This mansion is built on high ground. If the brakes fail to work properly, there will be a big accident."

Conan analyzed this situation with a serious look on his face.

  At the same time, after learning of the dangerous situation, the butler Shijo immediately stepped forward and scolded Mr. Gouriki:

"Haoli! You've been driving for over 20 years, how could you have missed such a basic inspection! You are fired now!"

Suddenly, hearing the butler's words, because as an employee of the Qing family here, this butler Mr. Shijo can be said to be their immediate superior, so the butler's "dismissal" is definitely not just talk - "How, how could this happen!"

Feeling a little overwhelmed, Mr. Hao Li immediately looked at the butler Mr. Shijo anxiously, wanting to plead with him.

Seeing this, Conan knew that the brake pipe was definitely not twisted off normally, so he pretended to be innocent and said to the butler:

"Everyone is careless sometimes. I just noticed it by chance today. Look, thanks to Mr. Haoli driving, I haven't had any accidents so far. I am standing here in good health!"

In his words, he seemed to be defending Mr. Hao Li, and he did not directly point out that the condition of the vehicle was deliberately made like this.

After all, as far as the current situation is concerned, it is certain that this was definitely not done by Mr. Haoli. After all, if the brakes were damaged, he would be the one in the most danger if something happened. And he knew that he was a substitute, so there was no need for him to do such a meaningless thing.

So, Mr. Haoli can be trusted, but others obviously cannot be trusted.

It's better not to make a big deal out of it before you figure out the situation.

  Therefore, after hearing the support from "Young Master Xiaolong", the housekeeper Si Tiao was in a bit of a dilemma:

"The words are so..."

"Be careful to check next time!"

Before the butler could continue speaking, Conan interrupted him again and said this directly to the driver, Mr. Haoli. Mr. Haoli was overjoyed and replied "yes", which seemed to be a bit like forcing the matter to be revealed.

At this point, the butler Shijo-san couldn't say much. After all, he was just the butler of the family. If he really wanted to refute the young master...

After all, this wasn't something that was normally arranged like asking the young master to go to school. I could give him a few words of instruction on these aspects, but for a situation like this, I still had to go through Ms. Meiling.

Therefore, the butler Si Tiao knew what to do and didn't say anything more about the matter.

Since the vehicle that was going to take Conan to class had this problem, the morning class had to be postponed temporarily. After all, the car couldn't be driven, and there were no extra vehicles at the mansion, so the company had to be notified to dispatch a car.

So, in front of everyone, Conan acted somewhat relaxed and prepared to go back for a nap, but in his heart he was very solemnly determined -

"However, this is not as simple as making Xiaolong unable to decipher the code within seven days! This has now proven that someone is waiting for an opportunity to kill Xiaolong!"

Thinking of this, Conan couldn't help but feel a little scared -

If I hadn't been Xiaolong's stand-in, would Xiaolong really be in danger?

And now, my situation is not optimistic. After all, I am now the "little dragon" in the eyes of those who took action...

  We must decipher the code quickly and find evidence of the other party's actions!

In this case, Conan is a little anxious...

……

Just when Conan encountered such an accident at Qing's house, on the other side, the real Xiaolong had already mixed with several members of the Junior Detective Team in the identity of Conan, playing football in the open space near Dr. Agasa's house where they usually played football.

Among them, because Xiaoai knew that the "Conan" in front of her was not the real person, but the young master of a wealthy family, she explained the situation to Xiaolong in advance, told him the identities of the other children in the Junior Detective Team, and asked him to never tell them his true identity to avoid unnecessary trouble.

In this way, Xiaolong readily agreed, and joined them, happily playing football here...