Conan's self-cultivation of fake wine

Chapter 523 A false alarm

"Kudo Shinichi was killed?"

The day after White Valentine's Day, Lu Ren received a call from the detective boy in Osaka.

Lu Ren was not surprised by Hattori Heiji's sudden contact. Although they didn't interact much, they would occasionally call and chat.

What Lu Ren didn’t expect was that the content of Hei Ji’s phone call this time was so “explosive”.

【Kudo Shinichi is dead.】

Lu Ren rubbed his brows and opened the calendar on his phone to check the date. "Is today April Fool's Day? This joke is not funny at all."

If ordinary people say that Kudo Shinichi is dead, it’s actually nothing.

After all, that famous figure in the detective world has disappeared for more than half a year, and there has been no news at all.

In this situation, it is normal for rumors to spread that he is dead.

When a public figure is reported dead by the media, and he has not yet come out to make a public statement and clarify the rumors in a timely manner, that is very telling.

Therefore, the public assumes that Kudo’s death does not matter. After all, Kudo Shinichi’s apparent identity is almost the same as being dead.

But Osaka Kurochiki is different, he knows Kudo Shinichi's true identity.

In other words, the death of Kudo Shinichi he mentioned means the death of Conan.

But Conan was clearly alive and kicking in front of him last night, so it's impossible for him to fly to Osaka to deliver food this morning.

If he really set out from Tokyo, he would have heard the news through the agency or the doctor's family. With this inference, there is only one possibility - Hattori is in Tokyo at this moment, and Conan died there.

So... Conan died in Tokyo? Died in the base of Mr. Lu?

When did those good-for-nothings in the organization reach this level? Could it be that they suddenly got wise?

No, it's not possible...

Currently, all the winery members who are well-known and have shown their faces in the organization are under Xiaoyou's surveillance.

No matter who approaches Conan, Lu Ren will be alerted.

Unless they knew they were being monitored and secretly delegated the task of killing Conan to someone else.

Well... this is a bit beyond their capabilities.

Instead of expecting them to suddenly become powerful, Lu Ren might as well believe that Conan accidentally switched to the wrong account when chatting with Xiaolan, exposing his true identity, and was killed by Xiaolan who got angry and embarrassed after learning the truth.

Thinking of this, Lu Ren's slightly anxious mood calmed down again.

As long as his dear colleagues didn't hide anything and raised their level, the situation would still be under control.

As for Conan...

People are dead, what else can they do?

All Lu can do is to help Conan prepare for his afterlife and take good care of Xiaolan for him...

Thinking of this, Lu Ren asked one more question into the phone, "Is there any risk of rescue?"

"Ok?"

"Oh no, I mean, can it be saved?"

"No, it's already hard..."

Hard?

Lu Ren's hand that was petting the cat paused slightly.

If rigor mortis appears, it means the person has been dead for quite some time.

This is a bit wrong.

These two brothers are inseparable and even go to the toilet in pairs, how could they be separated for so long?
So long that even Conan got hard?

He put his phone on the sofa, and the crisp sound of snapping fingers filled the room.

"Xiaoyou, can you still pull Conan into the bracelet world now?"

【OK. 】

Lu Ren's eyes narrowed when he heard this. If he could be pulled in, it meant that the owner of the Edogawa Conan account was still playing the game in Earth Online.

It also shows that Osaka Black Chicken is totally talking nonsense to him.

"Report his current location."

[No. 21, Beika-cho -chome, staying with Hattori Heiji. 】

"Okay, thanks."

Lu Ren picked up the phone again and said directly: "Let Conan answer the phone."

"Oh, you've discovered it? You're worthy of it." As he said that, Hattori handed the phone to Conan beside him.

"Brother Ren, that I..."

"No need to explain, I'll come find you now."

"Oh, I'm in Sanding..."

"I know." Without waiting for Conan to finish, Lu Ren hung up the phone.

Hearing the busy tone, Conan's expression was a little dazed. He returned the phone to Hattori with a heavy heart and said sullenly, "I told you not to do this. This is terrible. He's angry."

"It's okay, not really." Hattori waved his hand disapprovingly, "Besides, I didn't say anything wrong."

……

Ten minutes later, ten minutes later, Lu Ren looked at the doorplate and laughed. The nameplate with the name "Shinichi Kudo" glowed coldly in the sun.

The deceased's name has the same pronunciation as Xinyi but different characters - this word game is really clever
"So it was Kudo Shinichi who died. It was this Shinichi who died."

Hattori, the scoundrel, actually told the truth. Kudo Shinichi was indeed dead. He just didn't tell the whole story...

"Brother Lu Ren, were you also shocked?" Megure patted Lu Ren's shoulder like an experienced person, and said with a gesture that he completely understood him, "I was also shocked when I first received the report. I thought Brother Shinichi was dead."

No, he knew before he came that Kudo Shinichi was still alive. He just didn't expect that someone was really dead.

But there was no need to tell Megure this. Lu Ren nodded slightly and looked into the open room, "Is this the crime scene?"

"That's right. But brother Lu Ren, I won't bother you this time." Megure continued to smile and patted Lu Ren's shoulder, "This little brother from Osaka has already solved the case."

"Broken?"

Lu Ren felt even worse now.

If Hattori was just joking with him, then he didn't really care.

Huihara can be a little naughty sometimes.

Although his tolerance for Hattori is definitely not as high as that for his own Baoer, a joke once in a while won't hurt.

But if you say that you robbed him of his lottery draw opportunities, it would have made his trip in vain.

"There's nothing I can do. Mainly because this case is too simple. Gong and I, ahem, Conan came over and took a look and solved it."

The fierce look in Lu Ren's eyes even made Hattori, who was always careless and rough, feel that something was wrong.

He subconsciously wanted to hug Conan, but found that the boy had already run ten meters away.

"By the way, this case is not over yet! We only know the method of murder now, but we don't know who the real murderer is! So it's only half solved!"

"Oh?"

"Let's talk as we walk."

"boarding."

After bidding farewell to Megure and his group, on the way to the office, Lu Ren figured out the whole story with Hattori's narration and Conan's occasional supplements.

"You came to Tokyo on behalf of the deceased Kudo Shinichi. Your purpose is to find out who wants to harm him."

Hattori nodded, "Yes, he is an old classmate of Kazuha's mother. He originally wanted to ask Kazuha's father to come and handle the matter, but Uncle Toyama couldn't leave Osaka, so he asked me to do it. But I didn't expect that I was still a step too late."

"Ok."

ps1: The Japanese pronunciation of Kudo Shinichi is exactly the same as Kudo Shinichi. Therefore, the new version of the imported version directly translates the title into "The victim is Kudo Shinichi".