Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

"Oh? Going to a restaurant?"

"Yes, since we know Kidd won't be here until three o'clock tomorrow, we can just come back before then."

Chairman Suzuki smiled a smile that all men understand, "There is a very elegant store in Osaka!"

"…How can I refuse your invitation?"

Although he felt that President Suzuki was a little unreliable when it came to the matter of a treasure worth 800 million, Maori thought that maybe the other party really didn't take this thing seriously, so he readily agreed to the other party.

And at this moment——

"President!" Nakamori Ginzo returned to the president's office with two subordinates, "It's almost done."

"Okay, please."

President Suzuki confidently handed the Egg of Memory to Officer Nakamori to take away.

Mao Li asked curiously, "Why? Are we going to move it to the showroom?"

"The ones in the exhibition hall are fake," Officer Nakamori snorted as he held up the wooden box containing the Egg of Memory. "In the past, we were honest and stupid, and always put our prey in places he knew, so Kidd succeeded. But this time we plan to confuse him so that Kidd won't be able to find it."

Mao Li couldn't help wanting to laugh, and asked with a strange look on his face, "Where are you going to put it this time?"

"I absolutely cannot tell you. Kid used to disguise himself as one of our own to gather information," Nakamori glared at Mori, "This secret is only known to me and my two subordinates, and there is absolutely no way they are Kid in disguise!"

As Officer Nakamori said this, he grabbed the faces of his two subordinates fiercely as if demonstrating.

After grabbing his subordinates, Officer Nakamori began to grab Mao Li's face without saying anything: "Just in case, you also need to confirm!"

"Then I think you, officer, also need to be checked!"

Maori pulled it back without giving in.

He and Officer Nakamori were actually both smuggling their own agenda - when they were both still police academy students, they began to compete with each other. Later, when Mao Li left the police system, this "competition" stopped...

……

At nightfall, in the Osaka Castle Tower, except for Officer Nakamori who is in charge of the Egg of Memories, most of the police force is lying in ambush in the tower to prevent Kidd from showing up early.

Conan and Hattori are guarding here.

"Hey, Kudo,"

It was already past seven o'clock. Hattori looked around and asked in confusion, "Will that guy really show up at 7:20?"

Conan adjusted his black-framed glasses and said with certainty: "Kazuha's guess about the 50-character chart and Xiaolan's guess about the English alphabet are actually of the same nature. Kid would definitely not use such a simple code. So the clock without a second hand reaching the twelfth character should definitely be understood as the twelfth character in the notice, which is 'へ', so the time indicated on the clock is 7:20 pm..."

"That's not what I'm talking about,"

Hattori frowned and said, "I mean, do you really think that the glowing sky tower is the castle tower? There are so many police here, we will be caught if we show up, right?"

"But he also appeared on the rooftop of the Beika Hotel where Officer Nakamori was lying in ambush last time," Conan became a little uncertain. "Besides, what else can the Sky Tower be except a castle tower? Could it be the Tsutenkaku?"

"Ok?"

Hattori, who was from Osaka, was suddenly stunned.

"Tsutenkaku? That's right, it's Tsutenkaku!"

"what?"

"The top of Tsutenkaku is used to predict the weather. It's the glowing sky tower!"

Hattori shouted anxiously.

"what?"

Conan then looked towards the Tsutenkaku Tower with a grim expression, "It's too late to go there now!"

……

"Pullingleng!"

At the top of the glowing weather tower of Tsutenkaku, a dove landed on Kidd's finger.

The towering top of the tower can almost overlook the entire Osaka, and the night view looks like a sea of ​​stars.

Kidd raised the corners of his mouth slightly, took off the listening device from the pigeon's feet, spread his arms towards the wind and shouted.

"ladies and gentlemen!"

"Come on, the show is about to start!"

……

Phew—bang!

Osaka Castle, Conan and Hattori ran outside, and suddenly fireworks kept rising around them, as if it was a fireworks display. The colorful fireworks bloomed in the night sky, attracting the attention of passers-by.

Conan said in a deep voice: "He set off fireworks in Osaka Castle to attract the police! But why did he choose Tsutenkaku..."

"Kudo!"

Hattori asked anxiously, "Do you know where the egg was put?"

"How could I know? And if I knew where it was, I wouldn't have to come to the castle tower!" Conan forced himself to calm down. "But the good news is that Kidd probably doesn't know it either, so we still have time."

"What about uncle? Doesn't he know either?"

"I don't know. He went out drinking with President Suzuki..."

……

"Bang bang bang!"

The fireworks continued to bloom. Unlike the tense atmosphere in Osaka Castle, Maori was quite relaxed at this moment.

In an open independent courtyard on the roof of the hotel, he drank a glass of wine and looked outside with President Suzuki: "I knew that Kidd would arrange fireworks and other things to attract everyone's attention. The next thing should be a power outage, right?"

As Maori finished speaking, all the lights in the room suddenly went out.

"Mr. Maori is indeed a famous detective! He uses Kid's magic thinking against himself!"

President Suzuki looked at the moonlight, then looked down at the wooden box beside him that contained the Egg of Memory. His tone was full of admiration, "Not only did you predict his movements exactly, but you also placed the egg in a place he would never have thought of..."

"Well, this is actually very simple. It's just that Officer Nakamori feels bad. He still doesn't know what he is trying so hard to protect."

Maori smiled and shrugged, "But it's a trick after all, and the target is that thief. I have to fool my own people first before I can fool him..."

……

In Osaka Castle, Conan ran to the street and gritted his teeth as he watched all the lights around him go out.

"His goal is to find the location of the egg, so he first cut off the power supply to the entire town, except for the automatic power generation in the hotels and hospitals, which is the location of Officer Nakamori!"

"I see," Hattori suddenly understood, "In order to observe the automatic power generation, Tsutenkaku is the most suitable location. That guy knew this result would happen before he issued the notice!"

Conan looked towards the Tsutenkaku Tower: "And he knew that the egg would be hidden in an inconspicuous place... Damn, how could he know Officer Nakamori's idea so early? Was he wiretapping?"

Conan suddenly felt a little sympathy for Officer Nakamori. How could he possibly catch Kidd when he knew every combat arrangement clearly?

Hattori looked anxious: "This is not a solution, Kudo! We have to find the location of the egg first, and then ambush in the direction where Kidd escaped!"

“Wind direction, police deployment… where will they leave from?”

Conan gritted his teeth and thought, looking towards the direction of Tsutenkaku.

……

"Hoenzaka Sanmon Hospital,"

At the top of Tsutenkaku, Kidd took a leisurely look through the telescope, "Dojima Century Hotel, Tenma Emergency Medical Center... Dedicated detectives, I will take the treasure first."

"Shh!"

As the evening breeze blew, a white hang glider flew down from the Tsutenkaku Tower and passed through the traffic-congested streets like a piece of paper.

……

Hattori drove a motorcycle carrying Conan through the streets of Osaka. Because of the power outage, the streets were in chaos and there were traffic jams everywhere. Only after leaving the bustling neighborhood did the traffic finally decrease a lot, especially on the coast of Osaka Bay where there were almost no people.

However, I don't know if it was because the two plague gods were unlucky together, but they accidentally scraped against a dump truck during the chase. Although he was not killed, Hattori was also injured.

In desperation, Conan could only hand Hattori over to the dump truck driver, while he continued to chase on his high-tech skateboard.

As they turned a corner before entering Osaka Bay, Conan's eyes suddenly tensed up: "What is that?"

On the dark overpass to his left, someone seemed to be watching Kidd, and a faint red dot flashed by.

“It’s… a gun!”

Conan, who had been trained at the Hawaii Secret Service Academy, instantly had his pupils dilated. He realized what the man was holding in his hand and quickly turned his gaze to Kidd who was gliding above.

"Sniper rifle or..."

"boom!"

The red dot locked onto Kidd's right eye lens. With a slight gunshot, the glider lost control like a dead bird and fell diagonally toward the coast. Even the wooden box containing the Egg of Memory fell straight down.

Conan didn't care about the person who fired the gun, and ran to the coast immediately, but he didn't see Kidd, only a wounded pigeon and Kidd's broken single-lens backlight mirror, and the broken wooden box scattered on the ground...

"what is this?!"

Among the wooden box fragments scattered on the ground, there was no egg of memories that Conan had imagined, but a... doll?

"Why is there another note... 'I am a pangolin, my mission is accomplished, hahaha'?"

Chapter 80 No one can resist long legs and high-slit cheongsam

Since that visit to the hospital, when he began to understand a lot of things, Mao Li often had some inexplicable knowledge in his mind - for example, the note he put in the wooden box stolen by Kidd this time said "I am a pangolin, my mission is accomplished, hahahaha". Although Mao Li did not understand the specific meaning of this sentence, he instinctively felt that it was somewhat ironic and full of comedy, so he wrote it down and put it in the wooden box.

But the result was a bit regrettable - Kidd, who was chased by Conan and Hattori all the way, was very pressed for time and did not have time to open the box to check, so naturally he had no chance to see the note.

Maori originally wanted to wait for Kid to open the wooden box, so that he could experience the feeling of having someone else be the riddle teller and guessing the code himself...

……

The next day, the Suzuki Foundation announced that an accident had occurred with the Egg of Memory and the originally planned exhibition was temporarily cancelled. The Suzuki family's luxury cruise ship would transport the Egg of Memory back to Tokyo for a more comprehensive inspection.

Conan got on the boat with dark circles under his eyes.

Last night, the police spent the entire night in Osaka Bay based on his testimony, but in the end they still could not confirm whether Kidd was alive or dead, and they did not find the person who fired the shot. They just said that it was not a police officer.

"That guy won't die, uncle,"

When Conan found Maori, he said confidently, "There's no blood on his monocle, which means he wasn't shot. It will be easy for him to escape the police search."

"That's the truth, but..."

Maori noticed Conan's dark circles and was stunned, "What's wrong with you? You already have dark circles after just one night."

"No, it's okay."

Conan scratched his head guiltily. He was too embarrassed to tell Maori that he had been pondering over the contents of the note for the entire night. It was not until nearly midnight that he realized that the sentence might not be a code at all, but Maori's evil taste that arranged everything.

Seeing that Conan was unwilling to say more, Maori did not continue to ask questions and walked into the storage room of the Egg of Memory with him. There was already a group of people sitting around the sofa in the storage room, including the secretary of the Russian Embassy who had visited President Suzuki before, an art dealer, a beautiful leg researcher, and a video writer.

In addition, a special guest, Natsumi Kosaka, came unexpectedly. It is said that her ancestors were related to the Egg of Memory.

Maori nodded to everyone as a greeting, and his eyes lit up when he glanced at a mixed-race girl who was sitting there.

Beautiful lady...

"My great-grandfather was called Kiichi. He worked in Faberuge's workshop and married a Russian woman there," said the woman, who was in her twenties and dressed like an urban beauty. Her eyes and voice were very gentle. "My great-grandfather returned to Japan with my great-grandmother the year after the revolution. But my great-grandmother died after giving birth to my grandmother, and my great-grandfather also passed away nine years later..."

"My grandfather and parents died in a car accident when I was five years old. I was raised by my grandmother, but a month ago..."

"The old lady unfortunately passed away a month ago." The old butler standing behind the woman said with his eyes closed.

"I work as a pastry chef in Paris," Natsumi Kosaka continued. "I came back to Japan to sort out my grandmother's belongings and found a picture drawn by my great-grandfather. Since it happened to be related to the Egg of Memory, I thought I could come and take a look."

As Kosaka Natsumi spoke, she placed the old drawing that was broken into two pieces on the table next to the Egg of Memory.

"It is indeed the Egg of Memory," President Suzuki said after looking at the pattern and annotations on the blueprint, "but it is inlaid with gems..."

"Could it be that there were originally two eggs?"

Mao Li stroked his chin and said, "The outlines of the memory eggs on these two pieces of paper don't match, so could it be that they were originally drawn on a large piece of paper, and the middle part was missing in the end?"

"If you say so..."

"like……"

Everyone immediately looked at the blueprint and began to imagine the image of two eggs based on Maori's description.

At this time, Maori's gaze turned to Conan. The boy was fiddling with the egg of memory on the table and seemed to have discovered something.