The accumulated negative emotions always need to be released or relieved, so after a brief thought, Conan decisively called his good friend in Osaka whom he met during his trip to Kyoto during the day.

On the other side, Hattori Heiji had just arrived home not long ago. To be precise, he had just said goodbye to Conan, Mori Kogoro and others at the pub more than an hour ago. When he answered the phone, his tone still had a sense of exhaustion.

"Hello Kudo? What's going on? Why are you calling me so late?"

"No, well...how should I put it..."

Conan clicked his tongue several times on the phone, looking like he was very annoyed and wanted to complain but was so annoyed that he didn't know where to start.

Finally he just spoke his mind.

"I met the guy who made me smaller again today."

"Oh yeah...wait, what did you say, Kudo?!"

Hattori Heiji didn't react at first, but when he did, his voice burst out so loud that it almost blew the roof off.

"Kudo, are you saying that you met someone from that organization again? Where did you meet him? Did he find you?"

"To be honest, I met him in the lobby of the hotel where I'm staying, and we chatted for a while..."

"...What?" Hattori Heiji was dumbfounded.

What the hell, and we even chatted for a while?

Why is there such an inexplicable sense of harmony?

“How should I put it——”

Conan took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.

"He didn't have much hostility towards me. In fact, his attitude was quite good. It's just that what he did was too extreme."

"What?" Hattori Heiji became serious again, "Why, is he planning to launch a terrorist attack in Kyoto, or something else?"

"It's not that serious." Conan began to click his tongue again, "That guy was just traveling with his girlfriend, and he saw me and came to show off to me."

"Oh……"

Hattori Heiji on the other end of the phone suddenly had small eyes.

He thought to himself, well, it’s not a terrorist attack, but he is bringing his girlfriend to Kyoto for a trip. What a guy who has the leisure time.

"But do you know what the worst thing he did was?"

Conan didn't notice the psychological changes on Hattori Heiji's side, and he continued to speak indignantly.

"That guy dragged me to show off, but he actually refused to give me the antidote..."

"puff!"

Hearing this, Hattori Heiji finally couldn't help but burst out laughing, and quickly moved the phone away from his ear.

But Conan still caught it sharply and immediately shouted in dissatisfaction.

"Hey! Hattori, you just laughed, didn't you?!"

"No, no, no..."

There was an obvious smile in Hattori Heiji's voice, and he quickly changed the subject.

"Oh, by the way, Kudo, did you figure out anything about the puzzle during the day?"

"Riddle? Oh, you mean the picture that the old abbot of Sannoji Temple gave to Uncle Mori during the day. It is said that if you solve the riddle, you can find the stolen Buddha statue... Well, I guess so."

As expected, Conan's attention was immediately diverted when the topic of reasoning was mentioned.

He got up from the bed, jumped off the floor, ran to the wall, took out a folded paper from his small backpack and spread it out.

In the dim light of the suite, one could see that the drawing on the paper was a three-layered piece of furniture that looked like a bookcase.

In the painting, the top layer of the bookcase is decorated with cicadas, tengu and goldfish, the middle layer is decorated with chickens and loaches, and the bottom layer is decorated with violets, tengu, Mount Fuji and an acorn.

But for some reason, the acorn was painted on the outside of the bookcase, and above the eel, there was a Chinese character "丶" that looked like it was written with a brush dipped in ink.

"I hadn't figured out what this painting represented, but after returning from the pub, I had a rough idea, and it should be just as I thought."

"Really?!" Hattori Heiji was surprised, "Tell me about it!"

"I can't tell you directly." Conan thought for a while, "Oh, I can't find it right now. Hattori, do you have a map of Kyoto? It would be best if it is complete."

"I remember there should be..."

As soon as he finished speaking, a sound of rummaging was heard from Hattori Heiji's end.

after awhile.

"Ah, I found it, now what?"

"Then?"

Conan paused deliberately, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

"Then you put the map away, and if possible, a marker, and bring it with you tomorrow."

"Ah? Put it away?"

Hattori Heiji was stunned and had a bad feeling in his heart.

"Hey, Kudo, you're not going to..."

"I'll tell you the result tomorrow!"

After saying this, Conan decisively hung up the phone, turned off the phone and threw it on the bedside.

On the other side, in the Hattori residence, listening to the cold voice coming from the mobile phone repeatedly, "Sorry, the number you dialed is turned off", Hattori Heiji sighed deeply to the sky, threw the phone away, fell straight onto the bed, and uttered a groan.

"Don't do that. You're being tortured by others and now you're taking it out on me. How am I going to sleep tonight?"

……

At the same time, in the luxury suite on the upper floor of the same hotel, the door of the luxurious European-style bathroom was half-open.

Looking inside from the door, the bathroom was filled with mist and white smoke, which was very charming.

squeak--

The bathroom door was pushed open from the inside, and a pair of jade-like feet with a slight scent of moisture and shower gel stepped out.

It's Miyano Shiho.

After returning from Kamogawa, she took another bath, washed off the "stickiness" on her body, and walked out of the bathroom wrapped in a bath towel.

In the swirling mist behind them, Qin Wuque and Mingmei could be vaguely seen embracing each other affectionately.

"Eh? Where are you going Shiho?"

Mingmei was happily using her body as a sheath at the moment, and was puzzled when she saw her sister suddenly leave.

"Let's go to sleep. You guys continue. I'll forget about it." The girl waved her hand without looking back, saying indifferently, "I'm already tired enough from walking so much today. I really don't have the energy to do this anymore. In order to be able to travel normally tomorrow, I think I'd better go to bed early."

Having said that, she closed the door behind her.

Seeing this, Mingmei pouted and complained: "That's why I usually let Shiho exercise more."

As she spoke, she turned around and faced Qin Wuque who was standing nearby, revealing a lingering smile.

"Okay, let's continue, the night is still long--"

The one who responded to Mingmei was the extremely hard-working voice of a dog head.

"Okay~"

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Chapter 444: I’m missing pigeons and dogs!

Conan and Hattori Heiji agreed to meet at noon tomorrow, but when they actually met, it was almost evening, and the location was not at Sannoji Temple or the hotel.

But in Kyoto Hospital.

In the ward, Hattori Heiji, wearing a hospital gown and with a quilt covering his legs, was half-sitting on the bed. Bright sunlight shone in from the window, and it could be seen that there were many people around the bed.

"That's about right."

After wrapping the last bit of the bandage around his left shoulder and securing it with a knot, the doctor in a white coat stood up and nodded.

"It's not a big problem. It's just a skin injury at best. You just need to rest and avoid strenuous exercise for the time being. It's best not to sweat at the wound, okay?"

"Understood~"

Hattori Heiji nodded quickly, a smile on his dark face.

As for whether he took the doctor's words to heart, only he himself knew.

The doctor was an experienced doctor with many years of experience. He knew that some of his words might not have a significant effect even if he repeated them over and over again. So after helping to bandage the wound and giving the instructions, he turned around and went to the next ward.

In the room, when the doctor was bandaging the wound, Xiaolan had been whispering to Kazuha beside her, leaving no room for Conan to interrupt.

As soon as the doctor left, Conan immediately went to the bedside.

"Hey, Hattori, are you okay? Is it serious? Are you okay?"

"Of course, there is no problem at all!"

Faced with the doubts from his good friend, Hattori Heiji turned his arms without saying a word and laughed to show that he was in great shape.

It was just that he turned his right arm, and his left arm had just been bandaged. If the doctor had just left and he had broken the wound right after, even the doctor with the best temper would have scolded him.

"What's going on?" Conan frowned and asked, not wanting to argue with him.

"To be honest, I'm not sure either." Hattori Heiji scratched his head. "This morning when I was bringing that guy Kazuha here from Osaka, I suddenly encountered a guy wearing a Noh mask on a motorcycle and attacked me. Later, when we were fighting, I fell for his trick and was slashed by him with a knife..."

"Aren't you still practicing the sword technique? How could you be easily injured by others? Is it because the opponent is too strong or you were too careless?" Conan rolled his eyes.

"You have the nerve to ask?!"

It would have been fine if this matter had not been brought up, but as soon as it was brought up, Hattori Heiji immediately got angry.

"Who told you to keep me in suspense last night? I didn't sleep well the whole night and my mental state is extremely bad. Otherwise, even if the opponent's skills are really good, it is impossible for him to hurt me..."

"The most important thing is that the knife seems to be coated with poison." Hattori Heiji said seriously.

"Poison?" Conan was stunned.

"Correct."

Hattori Heiji explained: "When I was slashed by that guy before, I felt the coolness of his knife. The wound only hurt for a short while and then it stopped. Then my vision started to go black and my head became dizzy."

"The knife is coated with anesthetic." Conan understood.

"Yes, luckily it's just anesthesia, otherwise I would probably be lying in the morgue by now, hahaha!" Hattori Heiji started laughing as he spoke.

"Really..." Conan rolled his eyes, "By the way, did the criminal leave any evidence?"

"Yes." Hattori Heiji thought for a moment, "It's the dagger he used to cut me. It seems he dropped it when he escaped. It has now been taken away by the Kyoto police for testing. But since the criminal dared to leave the dagger behind, it means he is not worried about what will be found out."

"That's right." Conan nodded.

"Speaking of evidence..."

At this moment, Yuanshan Heye, who was chatting with Xiaolan from time to time on the side, suddenly muttered to himself, and was heard by Xiaolan who was sitting next to him, and asked curiously.

"What's wrong Kazuya?"

"Nothing, nothing." Yuanshan Heye smiled and shook his head and stood up from the chair. "I suddenly remembered something. I'll be out for a while. I should be back soon. You guys can chat first."

By the bed, Conan had already taken out the map of Kyoto that Hattori Heiji brought from home and the piece of paper with the clues to the puzzle in his hand from the bag that Hattori Heiji placed on the bedside table.

He uncapped the marker pen and a confident smile spread across his face. "Although this is just my guess and has not been confirmed, I am at least 90% sure. Watch out!"

After a while of puzzle solving and drawing.

"I see! So that's how it is!"

A few minutes later, looking at the big "玉" character on the map of Kyoto, Hattori Heiji suddenly realized.

"It turns out that the puzzle on the paper is not a real puzzle. Each pattern on it represents a place name in Kyoto. Putting all the place names together forms the Chinese character 玉. The position of this '丶' is where the treasure-stealing group buried the Buddha statue!"

"Then the location of the landing point on this map is——"

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