Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

Upon hearing this, Xiaolan immediately nudged Yuanzi with her elbow a few times, and happily pushed Yuanzi, who had not yet reacted, to the young man, "Go quickly, we'll be waiting for you here!"

The young man put his arm around Yuanzi's shoulder and invited her, "Let's go."

"what……"

Sonoko was a little absent-minded. She turned around and looked at Maori and Xiaolan, hesitantly wanting to say something.

At a seafood restaurant called Haizhijia on the coast, Maori sat between Yuanzi and the young man, and the atmosphere was a little awkward.

"So Mr. Daoxie is a student at Mihua University?"

"Yeah, but I'm graduating soon."

Young Daoxie Zhengyan lit a cigarette and talked casually.

"Xiaolan's father also graduated from Mihua University,"

Sonoko looked at Ran and Maori happily and said, "Right? Uncle?"

"Um……"

The father and daughter, Xiaolan and Maori, looked embarrassed and felt a little uncomfortable.

"Hey, uncle,"

Conan leaned over to Maori and asked, "Why did we come here?"

"Sonoko is just a high school girl. It's too dangerous to date a strange man whom she met for the first time."

Mao Li whispered, "Besides, this guy doesn't look like a good person at all..."

"Indeed, uncle and I agree..."

"But why did you come to Izu?"

Yuanzi asked Daoxie.

"I'm just traveling because of a breakup," Daoxie said, holding a cigarette in his mouth rather melancholy, "My girlfriend dumped me cruelly, and just when I was feeling depressed and staring at the sea in a daze, I suddenly saw a beautiful angel."

Daoxie looked directly at Yuanzi and said, "If my premonition is correct, I think you should be the goddess who can save me..."

"Ah?" Yuanzi's face turned red, and she held her face up happily, "How can I afford it?"

"Glib tongue!"

Maori and Conan rolled their eyes at the same time.

Such words from a scumbag can only fool little girls, but Yuanzi is just a little girl, and her face turned red with embarrassment.

"boom!"

While Maori was thinking about how to make Sonoko realize the true face of Dokyo, a pitcher of beer was placed heavily on the table by the waiter.

Maori looked up in surprise and found that it was the inn owner from yesterday.

"Your draft beer has been brought," the waiter said stiffly, looking at Daoxie, "Sir, please don't drop cigarette ashes on the floor. It's hard to clean up afterwards."

"Oh," Daoxie put out the cigarette in his hand, frowned as he watched the waiter leave, "This clerk has a really bad attitude."

Xiaolan stared at the waiter's back for a while and asked doubtfully, "Do you think you've seen him somewhere before?"

"Of course I have seen him," Yuanzi said unhappily, "He is the owner of the tile-roofed hotel where we stayed."

"But why is he here?"

“They are probably all owned by the same owner…”

"..."

Mao Li didn't say anything, but looked at the busy waiter on the other side with a slightly raised mouth corner.

"Uncle," Conan nudged Maori, "What's wrong? Is there something wrong with that guy?"

"No, I just thought it was a little funny."

Mao Li came back to his senses and said with a smile, "That boy Hattori looks like a relative..."

……

"So you guys are staying at the Wawu Hotel?" Daoxie took a sip of draft beer and said, "My hotel is nearby. How about we all go to a luxurious restaurant on the beach tonight? I'll pick you up in my car."

"really?"

"Hey, have you heard? I heard that another one was found in the woods beside the tracks today!" The conversation of two villagers outside the seafood restaurant suddenly attracted the attention of people inside and outside the store.

"What did you find?"

"It's a corpse! A brown-haired girl is in trouble again!"

"Corpse?"

Maori and Conan were slightly surprised when they heard this, looked at each other, and ran out of the seafood store at the same time.

"What are you two doing?" Xiaolan shouted hurriedly.

"Let's go take a look!"

"Conan! Dad!"

On the track that passes through the fields, many policemen stopped the villagers in front of the woods beside the road. Leading the team was Maori's super fan, Officer Coral Head Yokogou.

"The deceased's abdomen was stabbed all over." Yokogawa entered the woods to check the body, his brows slightly frowned.

It was the corpse of a woman with long brown hair. Her abdomen was covered in blood and her internal organs were all over the floor. Even though he had been a policeman for so long, he still felt uncomfortable looking at it.

"It seems that a brown-haired woman was also murdered a year ago?"

"Yes, he was killed on his way to a luxurious restaurant by the sea. Since there are no witnesses, the case is still under investigation... Hmm, this woman seems to be a tourist as well. I didn't expect this to happen again after a year. It seems like it was the same murderer..."

A police officer holding a police manual reported: "The estimated time of death should be between 8 and 9 last night, which is when the fireworks display ended."

"what?"

Yuanzi stood in the crowd outside. She couldn't see the body clearly, but she felt uneasy when she heard that the victim was a girl with brown hair. "I think we happened to pass by here at that time yesterday?"

Xiaolan nodded: "Yes."

"How horrible! My hair is also brown," Sonoko said with tears in her eyes. "Hate it! I don't want to die in a place like this... There are still so many things I want to do but haven't done yet..."

Mao Li was about to go to the scene to look for Yokogawa, and when he heard this he said, "Don't worry, the criminals don't have time to kill you now, and they don't even have time to hide from the police."

"But……"

"It's okay," Daoxie said gently, "I will protect you during your stay in Izu, but let's have dinner somewhere else. I'll pick you up around seven o'clock, and you can wait for me at the gate..."

"Yeah." Yuanzi wiped her tears and felt a lot more relieved.

Mao Li frowned and looked at Daoxie, then walked towards the scene.

"Uncle," Conan said thoughtfully, "Isn't that Daoxie-san... a little strange?"

"Do you still need to ask me about this?"

Maoli found a police officer with a stern face.

"Are you looking for Officer Yokomizo?" the police officer was a little confused.

"Detective Mori?" Officer Yokomizo pulled the police officer aside in surprise. "It's really you, Detective Mori! I was thinking this case was a bit difficult to handle!"

After the excitement, Yokomizo asked curiously: "But why are you here?"

Xiaolan came over with Sonoko and said, "We just happened to go to Izu Beach for a sea bath..."

"Aren't these Xiaolan and Sonoko?" Yokomizo looked around habitually, "Where is the brown-haired little girl assistant next to Detective Mori? Where did she go?"

"You mean Xiao Ai? She didn't come this time."

Xiaolan smiled.

"Where is Mr. Daoxie?"

Mao Li was puzzled when he saw that Daoxie was not there.

"He went back first."

……

In the evening, the weather suddenly turned bad and it started to rain, but the investigation into the female corpse was still not over.

"Boom!" At the edge of the woods beside the track, Maori held a black umbrella and looked up at the gloomy sky in the distance. Amid the rumbling thunder, raindrops fell down and formed a rain curtain along the ribs of the umbrella.

Yuanzi and the others should have changed their clothes by now, and are waiting for the weird guy named Daoxie in front of the hotel...

"Still no witnesses," Officer Yokomizo pondered as he returned to the crime scene. "Detective Mori, have you found anything?"

"Um……"

Mao Li shook his head. "We didn't have any clues to begin with. This rain has made things even more troublesome. It seems that we can only find out the connection between the woman who was murdered a year ago and the victim this time."

"I've already asked about this, but they have nothing in common. The only thing they have in common is brown hair, and they're all tourists visiting Izu," Officer Yokomizo frowned. "We can't find the murderer based on these alone."

"Did no one see this woman before the incident?"

"We are still investigating, but there seems to be no useful information."

"That's it..."

Mao Li stroked his chin, trying to recall what happened when he passed by the scene last night, but finally decided that he should go back to the hotel first.

That Taoist Association really made him feel quite uncomfortable...

"Officer Yokomizo, let's stop here today. I have other things to do."

"Ah? But Detective Maori..."

"If possible, try to investigate in nearby restaurants or hotels. Maybe the murderer has targeted the victim beforehand."

Maori waved his hand and left the scene holding an umbrella.

When they returned to the Wawu Hotel, Yuanzi and others did not leave, but stayed in the hotel restaurant to eat with the Taoist association.

"What? The garden was attacked by thieves?"

Maori frowned.

"Yes, it was an underwear thief with a knife!" Yuanzi said seriously, with a look of fear on his face.

"Underwear thief with a knife?" Mao Li was still unclear about the situation. "What's going on? Tell me in detail!"

Xiaolan explained: "When we were at the door of the hotel, a man came into our room through the window, rummaged through our luggage, and attacked Yuanzi who happened to go back to get something. Fortunately, I arrived in time and the man ran away without taking anything."

"Looking through the luggage?"

Mao Li realized something and immediately asked Sonoko, "Did you see what he looks like?"

"There was no time," Sonoko muttered, "and the room was so dark, I just saw a gleaming knife and my legs went limp... But I bit his arm hard while I was struggling!"

"Yes," Xiaolan nodded, "It seems to be a man with a lot of hair on his arms."

"Huh? A lot of hair? What a weird description..."

Chapter 90: Heroes always appear at critical moments

Both Maori and Conan thought it was a coincidence that they encountered a knife-wielding underwear thief at this time, and Sonoko also happened to have brown hair...

Maori also thought about the murderer's motive in this murder case. If he specifically targeted brown-haired girls, it is possible that Sonoko was attacked by the criminal.

But will they really continue to commit crimes while the police are still investigating?

There was also messed up luggage...

"Is it true that nothing was lost?"

Maori asked, looking directly at Sonoko.

"Uh," Yuanzi was a little dazed by being stared at, "The underwear is all here..."

"Besides underwear?"

"Well, nothing is missing, it's just that the cover of the camera is open..."

"Camera?" Conan asked eagerly, "Sister Sonoko, was the film stolen?"

"No," Sonoko said matter-of-factly, "I didn't show the negatives from the beginning, because I had taken all 36 negatives, and I wanted to see them while everyone was having dinner, so I took them all to develop during the day."