Stay away from Conan.

"Ah! I see! So, that talent didn't find the lottery ticket here, right?"

At this moment, as Gao Yuan asked the question, Xiaolan suddenly thought of something and immediately said in surprise:

"After Mr. Jiang Shi knew that he had won the lottery jackpot, he would definitely not have left the lottery envelope on the table casually. So, even if Mr. Jiang Shi's friend came to look for it, he would naturally not be able to find it!"

In response, Miyano Akemi nodded.

Seeing that Gao Yuan confirmed her idea, Xiaolan thought about it for a while and became a little confused:

"But, in that case, where would the lottery ticket be placed? Since he has no intention of claiming the prize money, then logically..."

"Logically speaking, if he doesn't plan to claim the prize and keeps the unexpected winnings for himself, then the best option is..."

Maori Kogoro also began to analyze the situation, and then an idea flashed in his mind. He cleverly knocked his fist with one hand on the open palm of the other hand, and said in surprise:

“Just give the lottery ticket back!”

"Yup!"

Hearing this, Xiaolan was also surprised and said:

"If a lottery ticket given to me by a friend wins the prize and I don't plan to keep it, then returning it is the best option!"

As they said this, because their analysis so far seemed to make a lot of sense, Maori Kogoro, Xiaolan, and Emoto Aya suddenly remembered something and immediately became confused again -

"Wait a minute! That's not right..."

Maori Kogoro said first:

"If Mr. Shi has already returned the lottery ticket, then why did that person come here to kidnap Hao Tai? This doesn't make sense!"

"No, that makes sense!"

However, Miyano Akemi gave a completely different answer to this topic.

"what?"

Confused, Kogoro Mori didn't understand.

"This actually explains why the other party didn't find the lottery ticket after they came here, so they chose to kidnap Hao Tai."

Miyano Akemi replied seriously.

"Indeed... If the lottery ticket had already been returned to Mr. Shi, then the other party would naturally not be able to find him. So in order to make up for the so-called loss, he used kidnapping to extort one million..."

Xiaolan continued to speak slowly along Gao Yuan's line of thought, and then she felt more and more that there was a contradiction -

"Hey, hey, hey! What nonsense are you talking about! If the lottery ticket has been returned to that person, then why did that person come here secretly? Doesn't this mean that the other party came here to kidnap you, not because he didn't get back the lottery ticket worth one million!"

Kogoro Maori was not quite convinced by what Gao Yuan said.

In response to this, Miyano Akemi smiled and said:

"But don't forget that the lottery ticket has not been cashed yet!"

"Ugh?"

At this moment, when this matter was brought up again, everyone was stunned and did not react for a moment to what was going on. After all, isn't "the lottery ticket was not redeemed" evidence that Mr. Masashi Emoto knew that the lottery ticket had won the prize but did not go to claim it?

Then now...

After a moment of confusion, Emoto Cai suddenly understood and said quickly:

"I see! If the lottery ticket has been successfully returned to the other party, then it should have been redeemed by now, but in fact it has not been redeemed, which means..."

"The lottery ticket...didn't return to the other party?"

Xiaolan was confused and didn't understand the result. In response, Miyano Akemi said:

"That's right. That's what happened. Mr. Emoto should have returned the lottery ticket to the other party, but the other party didn't get the lottery ticket and thought it was still with Mr. Emoto, so today's incident happened!"

"Eh? That makes sense... Since you said you returned the lottery ticket to Mr. Shi, how could he not have gotten the ticket? This reasoning is contradictory!"

Kogoro Mori replied impatiently.

Miyano Akemi was not annoyed by this, she just smiled and said:

"That's what happened... Mr. Jiang Ben paid it back, but it shouldn't have been paid directly to the other party, so that the other party hasn't even noticed that the lottery ticket has been delivered to him...

"After all, didn't Mr. Jiang Ben say that? Those friends haven't seen each other for a long time, which means that Mr. Jiang Ben didn't pay back the lottery ticket in person, but through other means!"

At this moment, Miyano Akemi recalled some details of what Masashi Emoto had said before and added this.

In response to this, Xiaolan and others suddenly realized——

"I see! If it wasn't returned in person, then it should have been sent by mail, just like Mr. Jiang Shi received the lottery ticket! However, the other party hasn't checked the letter yet, so he doesn't know that the lottery ticket has actually been returned to him by Mr. Jiang Shi, right?"

"Right! I think... that's it!"

Miyano Akemi said, smiling and nodding.

"Well, if that's the case, we have to tell Officer Sato and the others right away!"

As Gao Yuan confirmed this line of reasoning, it felt very reasonable, Xiaolan couldn't help but say so, and thought of Officer Sato and others who had gone to test the three people.

In response, Miyano Akemi said:

"I think... it's not necessary. After all, Mr. Jiang Ben should have guessed the contents of the threatening letter when he saw it. Since he chose to believe his friend, we should believe him too!"

So, Miyano Akemi thinks so...

……

Soon, the people who went to visit the three families came back, and they didn't seem to notice anyone with a problem immediately. Conan and the others still had a lot of confusion on their faces, especially Officer Sato and Officer Takagi. In comparison, Masashi Emoto seemed a lot more relaxed, and he didn't seem to be worried at all.

So, seeing them coming back, Emoto Aya hurried forward and asked about their trip. Knowing that Kota was still missing, she couldn't help but directly told him the reasoning that "Gao Yuan" had just made -

As a result, as Gao Yuan made his guess, not only Conan and the others, but even Masashi Emoto's face became extremely shocked.

Then, thinking of something, Officer Sato and Officer Takagi immediately determined who the criminal who broke into the room was -

"I see! The one who kidnapped Haota must be that person! No wonder when you said goodbye to that person just now, you said to him, 'That mailbox that is stuffed full might have some good stuff in it'! You knew from the beginning who kidnapped Haota, and you planned to follow and test these three people to confirm whether your guess was true! You are completely covering up for him!"

Officer Sato was obviously angry at Masashi Emoto's behavior and yelled at him.

As a result, having his thoughts exposed, Masashi Emoto's originally relaxed expression became heavy, and then he helplessly, hesitantly and with some emotion, asked:

"Yes, that's right... I just don't want him to be discovered by the police and..."

"But he didn't let Haota come back after all!"

Officer Sato hissed.

--"I'm back!"

However, at this moment, a child's voice broke the atmosphere... (End of this chapter)