Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

Mitsuhiko, Ayumi and Genta tilted their heads and listened carefully to Conan continue to tell them about the construction of the dam. According to the records, to build the big dam, the local villagers need to move out of their homes and clear a large area of ​​land for the dam construction. Because Governor Asakura has always been a people-friendly and kind person, and he did a lot of persuasion and appeasement, many villagers agreed to move. Although most people sincerely agree to move their homes and build a dam, it is not ruled out that some people are forced to move, and there are even rumors that there are villagers who strongly oppose and protest.

"Oh! I understand! That is to say, the villagers who opposed the relocation of the village to rebuild the dam at that time had a grudge against Governor Asakura, so they sent threatening letters to Governor Asakura and installed bombs to kill Governor Asakura?" After hearing Conan's words, Genta, Mitsuhiko and Ayumi finally reacted, and confirmed with Conan and the doctor with a look of horror.

"That's right. If it was done by the people in the village at that time who opposed the construction of the dam, then their motives are sufficient." The doctor touched his chin, thinking that the clues Conan was looking for should not be wrong.

Chapter 200

"And, look here, in a few days it will be the 5th anniversary of the completion of the new village where the villagers were relocated when the dam was built." Conan clicked on another news item to remind everyone, 'Governor Asakura was originally scheduled to attend the memorial ceremony. Now that something like this has happened, he has no choice but to cancel it. ' This also makes people more suspicious that the criminals who sent the threatening letter and planted the bomb may be related to this village. "

Since the criminal still holds a grudge against Governor Asakura for relocating the village to build a dam, it is impossible for him to want Governor Asakura to attend the celebration in their new village. The relocation of the village to build a dam happened five years ago. Is it because the recent anniversary of the completion of the new village aroused the criminal's hatred that he sent a threatening letter to Governor Asakura and even set off an explosion now?

If the criminal hated Governor Asakura so much that he wanted to kill him, how could he have endured for five years without taking action? If the criminal hated Governor Asakura to the core, he certainly could not have suppressed this hatred for five years, and he would not have waited until now to want to kill Governor Asakura because of the stimulation of the anniversary celebration.

There is only one possible explanation, that is, the criminal carried out the bombing with the intention of intimidation and mischief, and the life or death of Governor Asakura was not the most important result for the criminal. Was the criminal dissatisfied with Governor Asakura, but also a hedonist who wanted to show off himself?

Conan frowned in thought.

"Wow, there's an ice and snow festival!" Ayumi suddenly pointed at the news on the screen and shouted in surprise, bringing Conan back to reality. Conan looked in the direction of Ayumi's finger and found that the village was going to hold an ice and snow festival to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the completion of the new village.

The North Country's Snow Festival is indeed very attractive, but the focus is completely wrong, now we are talking about the terrible threatening letter and the perpetrator of the bombing. Conan rolled his eyes helplessly and muttered in his heart, but unfortunately Ayumi's words had already aroused the interest of Genta and Mitsuhiko.

"Ah! What can we do at the Ice and Snow Festival? What can we eat?" Mitsuhiko and Genta excitedly came to the front of the screen, squeezing Conan so hard that he almost couldn't stand.

Conan stopped and glanced at the three people who were enthusiastically discussing the Snow Festival activities. He turned to the doctor and told him that he suspected the intimidation and explosion were related to the village and he planned to go to the village to investigate.

"Doctor, what do you think? Inspector Megure and his team have no clues about the criminal. I think this village should be the only clue at the moment. But it's not good to alert Inspector Megure and his team rashly, so why don't we go investigate the situation first?"

The doctor thought about Conan's thoughtful idea for a moment and immediately nodded in agreement:

"What you said makes sense. Let's go to this village first. But just in case, let's ask Brother Maori to come along. After all, if, as you said, the criminal was provoked by the 5th anniversary celebration of the new village and sent the threatening letter and set off the bombing, then the criminal is likely to cause trouble during the celebration. A criminal with a bomb must be very vicious, and he may even have guns..."

"Indeed, it would be safer to call uncle along." Conan nodded. He had originally planned to go to the village with the professor and Maori to investigate the clue, using the excuse that they were going to collect information. But Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Genta, who were already completely interested in the Snow Festival, also shouted that they wanted to go together.

"Huh? Are you going to participate in the Ice and Snow Festival? Doctor! We want to go too! We want to go too!" Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Genta excitedly grabbed the Doctor's left and right hands and shook them gently.

Uh, these three little kids who just want to eat and play, have they got the point wrong again? They are going to investigate in the village, not to investigate the food and amusement facilities, but to investigate the dangerous things happening to the criminals related to the scare letter bombing case.

"Haha, we don't know if the criminal is there. If he is really there, it would be too dangerous with so few of us. Why don't we go together? At least we can have someone to look after us." The doctor could not resist the request of Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and Genta. He also felt that it would be a rare opportunity to appreciate the scenery of the snowy country and eat some northern delicacies, so he agreed with a smile.

Conan glanced at Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and Genta, who were jumping around with excitement and had no idea the real purpose of this trip.

Is it okay? Is it really okay to take these three little kids to participate in the ice and snow festival? But since the doctor said to go together, Conan had to nod in agreement.

……

Was it a premeditated crime by someone who hated Governor Asakura? Or was it a threat and bombing with other intentions? The true identity and purpose of the annoying person are still unknown mysteries.

Therefore, in order to track down the dangerous criminals who are willing to cause a huge tragedy, Conan Maori and others are about to go to the site of the dam construction - Niigata Kitazawa Village.

The next day, Maori rented a large station wagon. Ayumi, who had already run into the car excitedly, took Ai, Mitsuhiko, and Genta to sit side by side on the bench at the back; Professor Agasa sat alone in the middle two-person seat; while Xiaolan and Sonoko, who were chatting and laughing, sat in the two-person seat closest to the driver's seat; as for Conan, he sat in the passenger seat as usual.

The car sped up after getting on the highway. Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, Genta, Ran, and Sonoko, who were all excitedly laughing and discussing this and that, seemed to have fallen asleep on the way. Ai put on her headphones and started listening to music, and the doctor had half-closed his eyes and dozed off.

The car fell silent, and Maori's thoughts began to clear up. If the perpetrator who sent the threatening letter this time had only one purpose, which was to attack Governor Asakura, then this person should have sent a new threatening letter immediately after the first attempt failed, right?

Although it is not ruled out that the criminal's target is only Governor Asakura, Mori always feels that there are bigger truths and secrets hidden in Kitazawa Village. In addition, there are Inspectors Megure and Shiratori in Tokyo who are continuing to follow up the investigation. Even if the criminal is still in Tokyo and is preparing to continue to act, there is no need to worry too much.

However, the criminal did not seem to care whether he really killed Governor Asakura. After the bombing failed, the criminal was calm as if it had nothing to do with him, and did not show any anger at all, which made Maori very concerned. Logically, the criminal who dared to threaten the governor of Tokyo and openly carried out the bombing would not be the type to give up easily. Unless, killing Governor Asakura was not the criminal's only purpose.

What was the real purpose and motive of the criminal? If it was not to take the life of Governor Asakura, then why did the criminal deliberately go to such great lengths to cause such intimidation and explosions in Tokyo?

Conan was also thinking, and he looked at the scenery flashing by quickly outside the window. When his mind was drifting away, the car suddenly stopped. Maori unbuckled his seat belt and shouted to the people sleeping in the back: "Everyone wake up, we are at the rest stop, let's have lunch first."

Although they had not yet arrived at Kitazawa Village and had not yet tasted the delicious food of the Ice and Snow Festival, as soon as they heard that it was time to eat, Yuanta and his friends, whose stomachs had already been rumbling, immediately came back to life and ran out of the car shouting excitedly.

As soon as the car door opened, the cold air unique to the north rushed into the car, making Yuanta, Mitsuhiko and Ayumi, who were in a hurry to get out of the car, shiver with cold. Ayumi crossed her arms, shivered and shrank her neck and shouted: "Wow, the air feels like it came out of a refrigerator."

"Because the Snow Country is like a huge refrigerator, haha." Dr. Agasa told Ayumi, Genta and Mitsuhiko while reminding them to hurry into the rest stop.

Seeing that everyone got off the car one after another, Conan also unbuckled his seat belt, opened the door, and jumped out of the car. The temperature was indeed colder than Tokyo. Although the temperature was relatively low and a bit cold, I always felt that the air became much cleaner, just like the feeling of white snow. However, in this pure and white snow country, are there also terrible truths and ugly secrets hidden? Or is there someone's desire and ambition stirring, planning something?

Seeing that Genta and the others were cheering and running towards the shop selling bento, Conan withdrew his thoughts, exhaled lightly, watched the white smoke gradually dissipate, and then slowly followed Maori towards them.

The group came to the counter selling bento boxes one after another. Looking at the various bento boxes in the glass display case, Yuan Tai pointed at the grilled eel rice and reported to Mao Li with his mouth watering: "I want eel rice!"

Although Maori could pay for everyone to eat what they wanted, this was not necessary - the food at the rest stop was just to fill their stomachs temporarily, and the time to have a real meal would come when they reached their destination.

Dr. Agasa was leaning in front of a glass display case, his big nose almost touching the glass, staring at a steak with his eyeballs almost popping out.

"No way." Ai coldly extinguished the little hope in the doctor's heart, and looked up to tell Maori, "The doctor and I both want vegetable ramen."

"Ah..." The doctor had no choice but to retract his head and wait obediently to eat vegetable ramen.

A simple lunch filled everyone's stomach, and in order to get to Kitazawa Village as quickly as possible, everyone got back on the car at Maori's urging.

Yuanta, who had just eaten a big bowl of ramen, looked at the silvery northern scenery outside the window, and immediately pointed at the snow-capped mountains in the distance and shouted, "Is that Kitazawa Village? I wonder what delicious food there is at the Snow Festival?"

Conan frowned grimly. Didn't he just have lunch? He is still full and can even be interested in food. He is really worthy of being Yuanta.

The trees on both sides of the road were covered with white snow, just like a warm quilt. Occasionally, a breeze blew and soft snow fell down. These were natural beauties that could not be seen in Tokyo. No wonder Xiaolan and Yuanzi were as excited as the three little ghosts. Even Xiaoai rarely raised her head from the book and looked out the window.

"Ah, it would be nice if we could come together. Such a beautiful snow scene, full of romance, is perfect for lovers to visit. Don't you agree, Lan?"

Xiaolan, who was intoxicated by the beautiful scenery outside the window, blushed when she was reminded by Yuanzi: "What are you talking about, Yuanzi!"

In such a beautiful northern scenery, Maori and Conan are still obsessed with the threatening letter and the bombing. However, if the criminal is really from Kitazawa Village, it is really sad that someone who grew up in such a beautiful place could be such a bad criminal.

When he arrived at Kitazawa Village in Niigata, he looked up at the snow-capped mountains and snowfields, and felt that this was a pure and beautiful place. However, whether there are any unspeakable secrets and ugly criminal truths buried under the pure white snow, he still needs to dig it out by himself.

"Wow! There's so much snow! Look, look, that's the snow-capped mountain!" As soon as he jumped out of the car and stepped on the thick snow, Genta excitedly pointed at the snow-capped mountain in the distance and shouted. Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, Xiaolan and Sonoko were so happy to see the white world that their eyes lit up and they were completely immersed in the beautiful scenery.

Yes, it seems that I can only rely on myself and Conan to dig. Maori's mouth twitched slightly, and he rolled his eyes and glanced at Yuanta and others who were clamoring to go to the Snow Festival.

"Decide on a place to live first and put your things away before going."

At Mori's request, Genta and the others, who had been urging Professor Agasa to take them to the ice and snow, had to stop making a fuss and obediently follow him to the hotel where they were staying.

The car stopped in front of a simple-looking hotel. Mao Li led everyone to push open the hotel's wooden door. The woman who was busy at the counter immediately raised her head and smiled: "Welcome, how many guests are there? How many rooms do you need?"

Although the woman was wearing framed glasses and had a simple hairstyle, it couldn't hide the exquisiteness of her facial features.

Mao Li pointed to the large group of people following him and said, "I heard that Kitazawa Village will soon celebrate its fifth anniversary and there will be a snow festival, so I put aside my busy detective work and brought them here from Tokyo to have fun."

"Ah, so you are guests from Tokyo. The celebration will officially begin in a few days. The Snow Festival has already started. You can go to the snow-capped mountains to participate later. I hope you have fun." The beautiful lady with glasses told Mao Li and the already excited Genta and others behind him with a smile on her face, "I am Mizuki Tono, the person in charge of this hotel. If you stay here, you can come to me if you have any questions."

It turned out to be the person in charge of the hotel. Conan couldn't help but take a closer look at this quiet and simple person in charge. Under this calm and beautiful appearance, perhaps there is something extraordinarily capable.

……

Seeing that Genta, Mitsuhiko, Ayumi and the other kids had no patience to stay in the hotel, Xiaolan and Sonoko asked the doctor to take them to the Snow Festival first, and told the doctor that they would go to the Snow Festival to find them after they helped arrange accommodation.

"Haha, no problem, I'll keep an eye on them." The doctor waved to Xiaolan, and the group headed straight for the Snow Festival. Maori told the doctor that he and Conan wanted to go to the village office first to see if they could get any useful information and get a map of the village.

Chapter 201

"Wow, it looks like a fairy tale world. Ai, come and see." Ayumi looked at the silver-white snow with longing eyes. The sunlight spread a thin layer of golden light on this silver-white world. It really looked like a fairyland on earth, like a beautiful fairy tale world.

"Doc! What is that? It looks delicious." Yuantai pulled the doctor and pointed to the food in a small room not far away. The doctor smiled and took the greedy Yuantai and the others over there.

"There's juice poured on it! I want the soya bean flavor!" Ayumi pointed at the shaved ice being made in the shop and told Dr. Agasa, and Mitsuhiko immediately told the doctor that he wanted the chocolate flavor for adults.

Yuan Tai, who wanted to eat it as soon as he saw it, was worried. He looked at the chocolate sauce, then the strawberry sauce, and the other flavors and muttered: "The strawberry flavor seems good, but I also want to eat chocolate, and the banana flavor is also good."

"Let's have banana flavor. This way, the three of you have different tastes and you can try each other's ice cream."

Xiao Ai, who doesn't want to make herself even colder by eating shaved ice in such a cold place, makes a suggestion to Yuantai.

"That's right! Huibara is still smart, haha! Then I want banana flavor!" Genta also made his decision, and the doctor bought three different flavors of Sougan from the owner.

The three people who received the shaved ice ate it with relish, sharing and discussing the different tastes of the three flavors. Because three people shared, the three portions of shaved ice were finished in no time. Yuan Tai wiped his mouth and immediately shifted his eyes to the northern barbecue restaurant not far from the shaved ice shop.

"Doctor! We just finished eating something cold. Shouldn't we eat something hot to warm our stomachs?" Yuantai suggested to Dr. Agasa with a greedy look on his face.

When a gust of cold wind blew, it also blew the aroma from the barbecue stall over. The aroma of meat that kept wafting over not only made Yuanta, Mitsuhiko and Ayumi drool, but also stimulated the doctor's appetite. The doctor gently closed his eyes and sniffed the aroma of meat. It was fresh and tender northern beef!

"Just one?" The doctor noticed Xiao Ai's sidelong glance at him, and smiled and raised his finger to ensure that he would only eat one piece of barbecue. Xiao Ai sighed helplessly: "Pick a skewer of lean meat, don't eat anything too fatty."

After receiving Ai's promise, not only the Professor, but also Genta, Mitsuhiko and Ayumi were very excited, and the four of them rushed towards the barbecue stall where the aroma was wafting out.

As a result, after eating one restaurant after another... Ai could only stand by and watch to prevent the professor from eating food that contained too much sugar and calories. She was completely unable to control, and didn't want to control, Genta's greedy mouth.

"Okay, after eating so much, now it's riddle time. Listen to the question carefully. Those who answer correctly will get a prize." Dr. Agasa looked smug and pretended to be mysterious and didn't tell everyone what the prize was. He asked, "Why did the snowman disappear when it was in everyone's hands?"

"The snowman disappeared when I got it?" Mitsuhiko frowned and repeated the doctor's question in distress, looking at the snowman that the children were making at the foot of the snow-capped mountain and thought.

Ayumi looked up at the sun in the sky, hesitated for a moment, blinked and looked at the doctor and replied: "Hmm? Was it melted by the sun?"

The Doctor smiled and shook his head.

A skier who had just learned to ski accidentally bumped into the snowman that the children were building. The snowman fell to the ground and merged with the snow. The children burst into tears. The skier hurriedly consoled and apologized. Seeing this, Yuan Tai, who was still chewing food, immediately replied: "I know! The snowman was broken by being pushed over."

"Hehe, none of them are right." The doctor still looked mysterious and shook his finger at Genta to deny his answer, which made Genta, Mitsuhiko and Ayumi more curious and asked for the correct answer.

Xiao Ai raised the snowman-shaped ice cream in her hand and told the three little ghosts who were pestering the doctor: "It was eaten. This snowman is not the snowman on the snow, but the snowman-shaped ice cream, right?"

After that, he turned to the doctor and reminded him unhappily, "Doctor, it's really cold here. Stop telling such cold riddles, okay?"

"Hey, okay, Ai has given the correct answer, now let me give you a reward. It's a snowman-shaped ice cream for each of you!" The doctor said as he handed the cute snowman ice creams to Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Genta one by one. In the end, there were two ice creams left in the doctor's hand. The doctor looked at Ai carefully and said, "I also bought some for Mori and Conan. Since they are not here, in order not to waste food..."

The doctor thought he could finally sneak in some sweets this time, but he didn't expect Ai to tiptoe and take two snowman ice creams from the doctor's hand, and then put one of them into Yuantai's hand: "Eat this one too."

"Ah? Really? Can I have it? Haha, that's great. The snowman ice cream is delicious." Yuan Tai happily opened the new snowman ice cream and started eating it.

"Ai-chan, there's more there..." The doctor cautiously and tentatively pointed at the other ice cream left in Ai's hand.

"I'll have Uncle Maori's portion. Is that a problem?"

"No, no problem..."

While the doctor and his friends from the Junior Detective Team were still eating and playing at the Snow Festival, Conan and Maori had already arrived at the Kitazawa Village Committee Office. Conan tiptoed to the staff in the office and asked for a map. An old man with a friendly smile looked at Conan and Maori and said with a smile: "Little boy, are you here to sightsee with your dad?"

Conan immediately showed a standard innocent and cute smile: "Yes, uncle, can you give me a map of Kitazawa Village and the newly built dam?"

Although the uncle was a little puzzled about Conan's request for the dam map, he still believed in Conan's innocent smile, nodded in agreement, and turned to get the map.

"Uncle, you have been living in Kitazawa Village all the time, right? You must be a little reluctant to demolish the original village and move out, right?" Conan tried to ask indirectly as naturally as possible, trying to understand the villagers of Kitazawa Village's real thoughts on the demolition and relocation for the construction of the dam.

The uncle thought to himself that this kid was really smart, actually caring about such things. While handing the map to Conan, he told him with a professional smile: "Building the dam is a good thing, everyone will understand. Now this new village is also nice to live in. Look, it's the 5th anniversary. Kid, go and have fun with your dad, there are many celebration activities."

Everyone will understand? That is to say, there are indeed villagers who oppose the relocation of the village for the dam reconstruction. Who are those villagers? Where are they now? Were there any radical actions when the village was relocated for the dam reconstruction five years ago?

These are what Maori wanted to know, but the uncle from the village committee office sounded very official in his words, and if he didn't continue to inquire carefully, he would definitely not get any information.

Maori winked at Conan, and Conan nodded slightly in understanding.

Conan flipped through the map in his hand, thinking about how to ask questions. Just as he was about to ask something more, a man's loud voice came from behind him: "Uncle, bring us two maps of Kitazawa Village. It's a new village, and we don't know the way."

"Bingchuan, I didn't expect you didn't know the way. I thought you would be more familiar with it." Another man with a lower voice said to Bingchuan who was lying carelessly on the consultation desk of the office.

Hikawa raised his eyebrows proudly and smiled: "I don't live in this small place for a long time. To be honest, if you have money, who would want to stay in a mountain village like this? Of course, you still have to go to Tokyo or something to enjoy yourself. Don't you agree, Yamao?"

Shanwei, who was called by Bingchuan's name, flashed a barely perceptible sneer at the corner of his mouth. He did not respond to Bingchuan's words and asked the uncle in the village committee office: "Uncle, please give me a map of the old village before the dam was built and a new map of the current village."

"A map of the old village? What's the use of it? There's a dam now. How can we find the houses from that time?" The uncle frowned in confusion, thinking to himself why the guys who came to ask for maps today were weirder than each other. But since it was a customer's request, the uncle turned around and went to find an old map of the village for Shanwei.

In response to the uncle's doubts, Yamao just remained silent with a gloomy expression and said nothing. But Hikawa, who was grinning strangely beside him, seemed to be proud of knowing the reason, and his eyes flashed with a cunning light.

Conan looked up from the map and landed on Yamao beside him, curiously looking at the man who had specifically asked for the old map before the dam reconstruction. Yamao noticed Conan's gaze, turned his head slightly to look at Maori, then looked down at Conan, just frowned and said nothing. Bingchuan beside Yamao poked his head out from behind Yamao, staring at the short Conan and Maori behind him with interest for a long time, until Yamao pushed him: "Hey, your map, hurry up and take it and go."

Being pushed by Shanwei, Bingchuan shook a little, and the things in his pockets fell to the ground with a loud noise. Maori looked down, squinting his eyes in surprise at the things on the ground, and then looked up at Bingchuan with a big smile on his face.

Is this a stun gun that can knock people out? Why would this tourist who came to the village office to get a map carry such a dangerous item?

Conan also felt that Hikawa was a very suspicious person, so he deliberately rushed forward to pick up the electric shock device on the ground, raised his head and asked with a standard child's innocent smile: "Big brother, what is this? It looks like the kind of thing that can stun people in TV dramas."

"Haha, you know quite a lot, kid." Hikawa laughed as he took the stun gun back from Conan, and explained to the suspicious man from the village committee office while holding the stun gun up, "I carry this thing with me because I often go out for work, and I may run into bad guys with bad intentions or accidents, so I have to carry it for self-defense."

Conan pretended to understand, nodded and said with a smile, "I see," while looking for topics to learn more about the identities of Hikawa and Yamao who came to get the map. Seeing Hikawa and Conan chatting, Yamao, who had been silent, anxiously flipped the map in his hand.

Conan noticed that Shanwei was flipping through the map of the old village while checking the map of the dam as if for comparison. He turned to Shanwei curiously and asked: "Why does this big brother want the map of the old village? Isn't there a dam there now?"

Yamao frowned slightly, and seeing Conan's eyes sparkling with curiosity, he sighed helplessly, put the map into his pocket and said, "I just want to know where my old home is now. What's so strange about that?"

"Oh, I see. Big brother has been away from home for many years? Never come back? He was not in the village when the village was moved and the dam was built?" In response to Conan's repeated questioning, Yamao glared at him impatiently, said to the ice cream beside him, "I'm leaving first," and turned and left.

"Haha, that's just his temper. Don't be afraid, kid. But you should go back with your dad, it's almost dark." After Bingchuan's reminder, Conan realized that the sky outside the village committee office had indeed been dyed red by the sunset. The orange-red sunset fell on the white world of ice and snow, dyeing the pure white world bright red.

Watching Hikawa and Yamao's figures gradually blending into the red snow world, Maori silently remembered these two people in his heart, especially Hikawa who carried an electric shock device with him, which was really suspicious. Of course, Yamao, who seemed to be deliberately hiding something and was unwilling to tell the truth, was also suspicious.

But it was getting dark, and it would be strange if they didn't go back to the hotel. Maori and the others thanked the uncle from the village committee office and headed towards the hotel where they were staying.

When Maori pushed open the door of the hotel, he recognized at a glance that the person walking back and forth in the store was the hotel manager Mizuki Tono whom he had met today.