mynovelonline Chapter 759: It’s a lie!
Chapter 759: It’s a lie!
Chapter 759: It’s a lie!
"This is it, the Rice Flower Department Store."
Kogoro Mouri, Dr. Agasa, Akemi Miyano and a round egg arrived at their destination.
"The client agreed on the phone to meet at the sporting goods counter here at noon." Maori Kogoro raised his wrist to check the time and said, "Well, it's still early, let's go eat first."
Martin not only followed Kogoro Mori to get a case, but also got a free meal.
Next to the Beika Department Store is a Teito Bank. When passing by, Dr. Agasa mentioned that a robbery had occurred here some time ago.
"Why haven't I heard the great detective mention it?" Martin conceded that Conan must be involved in the robbery.
"You'll laugh at him again if I tell you." Dr. Agasa admitted that Conan was indeed at the scene of the robbery. At that time, the Junior Detective League was accompanying Mitsuhiko to deposit money.
"The public security has been getting worse recently." Kogoro Mouri muttered.
Whose credit is it? ~ Martin felt that Kogoro Mori's words were simply challenging his sense of humor, and if he laughed he would lose, so he used all his strength to hold back his laughter.
"Martin-kun, why are you shaking..." Miyano Akemi was puzzled at first, then frowned: "It feels a bit obscene."
Martin began to hop and walk like Rabbit.
……
Kogoro Mori originally wanted to treat his guests at a cheap ramen restaurant, but the door frame of the traditional Japanese door of the ramen restaurant was too low, and the cool Martin was once again stuck in the door frame and couldn't get in.
"Do you have to go out like this? Can't you look a little more normal?" Kogoro Mouri complained.
Suddenly I miss the time when I first met Martin. At least this guy was still a human being back then.
Martin still looked heartless: "That would be so boring."
They went to a different restaurant and ordered a set meal. Miyano Akemi took a photo of Dr. Agasa's plate and left it for Haibara Ai to check when she came back from school.
Naturally, whether on the way or during the meal, Martin's appearance attracted a lot of attention from others.
After dinner, it was almost time, so everyone walked into the Mihua Department Store and headed for the sporting goods counter.
Clothing counters are only available from the fourth floor, so they naturally planned to take the elevator directly to the fourth floor.
"Empty elevator, good luck~" It's always a bit uncomfortable to be with strangers in a closed space. I would be a little happy if there were no other guests taking the elevator together.
After Kogoro Mouri was the first to enter the elevator, Akemi Miyano glanced at Martin and suddenly reached out to stop Dr. Agasa.
Martin went straight into the elevator. The size of the elevator door was just enough for him to pass through: "Uncle, I'm coming in."
"Ah?" Maori Kogoro was puzzled at first as to why this guy had to say hello when entering the elevator. When he looked up and saw a huge egg pressing down on him, he was startled again: "Ah!"
Then, the price Martin paid for entering the elevator was that Kogoro Maori was squeezed against the wall, bent into a 'C' shape to fit the shape of an egg.
"Why don't you take the elevator by yourself?"
"Ah, that's what I meant." Martin suddenly realized, but at this time the elevator door had been closed, so Miyano Akemi and Dr. Agasa naturally turned to another elevator next to them.
"Hurry up, push the button to the third floor!" urged Kogoro Mouri, who was feeling uncomfortable due to the squeeze.
However, after a few seconds of silence, the elevator still did not move.
"Uncle, I'm going to tell you something, don't be afraid."
"I have received professional training and I am generally not afraid."
"I can't reach the keypad." Martin stretched out his short arms, but there was still some distance between him and the keypad.
"What?" Kogoro Mouri was confused. The elevator door was closed and you told me you couldn't touch the button panel?
"You're blocking me, and I can't reach it!" Kogoro Mouri started to panic. If he wanted to press the elevator button, he had to kick Martin out first. To kick Martin out, he had to let the elevator door open. To let the elevator door open, he had to press the elevator button... It was stuck!
Finally, Kogoro Mouri slid down along the gap between the egg and the corner of the wall, and pressed the elevator button with his toes in a very twisted posture.
"You are so awesome, uncle! You are indeed a judo master."
"I practice judo, not jiu-jitsu, you little bastard!" As the elevator was ascending, Maori Kogoro said with a grin, "My old waist...hiss, I can't get up. When you go back, remember to take the elevator alone...no, just roll down the escalator!"
"What a great idea! You can even randomly select a few passers-by as bowling pins! Uncle, you're a genius!"
"If you get into trouble, don't say it was my fault!"
The elevator reached the fourth floor and opened the door. Martin walked out and Kogoro Maori rolled out.
"..., I've already told you, I was commissioned to solve the mystery of the 'thirteen red long-sleeved T-shirts delivered every week', and we agreed to meet here." Kogoro Mouri repeatedly explained to the confused counter clerk.
But there was only one counter clerk here, and because it was lunch time, there were very few customers in the entire clothing store.
"Speaking of which..." Dr. Agasa began, "There should be more than one sporting goods store here, right?"
This is just the nearest store after entering the door.
Maori Kogoro said with a sour face: "Do I have to go through the whole mall?"
Miyano Akemi was puzzled: "Didn't the client say anything more on the phone?"
She suspected that this confused uncle did not understand what the client said.
Maori Kogoro rolled his eyes and recalled: "The guy on the phone seemed to use a voice changer, and I couldn't tell whether he was a man or a woman. He said that we would meet at the sporting goods counter in the Beika Department Store at noon, and asked me to help him solve the mystery of the thirteen red long-sleeved T-shirts delivered every week. The commission fee has been placed in my mailbox. After saying this, he hung up the phone. If it weren't for the fact that I had already paid 100,000 yen for the commission fee, I would not have paid attention to such a weird guy."
"Speaking of which..." the counter clerk in front of me said, "No one has come to ask about T-shirts or anything like that today, but there is a person holding a black hat and asking around."
"Who is it?" Although he couldn't hear any connection with his own affairs, Kogoro Mori still asked subconsciously.
"Here." The clerk pointed to another clothing counter diagonally opposite: "That's the strange foreign woman."
The three people and the egg looked over and saw an acquaintance, Judy Stelling from the FBI, holding a black peaked cap and questioning the clerk at the counter: "I've already told you that the embroidery pattern on this hat is the logo of the Rice Flower Department Store. It must be a special product of yours, right? You can't remember what kind of person bought this hat?"
The teller was sweating profusely, thinking that this woman was really making things difficult for them: "Yes... and we really have no idea about the man you described."
Judy looked unhappy. A few days ago, during the robbery of the Teito Bank next door, she encountered a man who looked very similar to the deceased Akai Shuichi, with burn marks on his face and a black peaked cap on his head.
Judy wanted to meet him at the time, but was stopped by a robbery, and then Scar Akai disappeared. So she bought a similar cap and asked around if anyone had seen this man.
"Ms. Judy?" Dr. Agasa recognized her.
Not only did they meet during the bus bomb hijacking case, but later on, Dr. Agasa also dealt with her and the FBI during the full moon night operation, so they were all acquaintances of each other.
"Dr. Agasa, and Mr. Mori." Judy Stelling looked at Dr. Agasa, Kogoro Mori in turn, and Miyano Akemi, who looked familiar but she couldn't recognize her. And... an egg?
Is it the mall's mascot? The kind of staff member wearing a doll costume?
"That FBI agent who came to Ran's school to be an English teacher..." Maori Kogoro and Judy had met once and had a deep impression of her in some ways: "When did your Japanese become so good?"
When she was playing the role of an English teacher, Judy had been speaking Japanese that was even worse than Kogoro Maori's reasoning as a disguise, but when she asked the teller questions just now, she used her real and very normal Japanese level.
"Haha...I'm working hard to improve my Japanese." Judy laughed it off.
Then she looked at Dr. Agasa, a hint of hesitation flashed in her eyes, and suddenly came over and pulled Dr. Agasa's arm: "Doctor, come here."
After pulling the confused Dr. Agasa aside so that Maori Kogoro and the others couldn't hear their conversation, Judy asked, "Doctor, Akai Shuichi... do you remember this person?"
Dr. Agasa's expression was a little strange. He remembered it, remembered it very well. He lived next door to him.
But Shinichi said that Shuichi Akai is now "dead", and even in the FBI, only James Blake knows that he was just faking his death, but no one knows his current whereabouts.
So Dr. Agasa pretended to recall with difficulty: "Is it the man with dark circles under his eyes? He doesn't like to talk much."
"Yes, that's him... Doctor, have you seen him recently?" Judy held up her cap: "Wearing a cap like this, there is a burn mark on his face."
"?" Dr. Agasa was really confused this time and just shook his head unconsciously.
Has Shuichi Akai taken off his disguise and been running around lately? Is there a burn on his face?
……
Judy left disappointed, and then the three of them and Dan went through all the sporting goods counters on this floor, but they still couldn't find Mouri Kogoro's client.
An hour passed, and after lunch time, more and more customers came into the mall.
"It's already past one o'clock! Forget it, let's go back! At worst, I can just return the commission to him!" Maori Kogoro snorted: "It's just a prank. Even if you pay me, you can't play me like a monkey."
"That's right!" Martin also said, "I never pay!"
Mouri Kogoro: "???"
Back in front of the elevator, Kogoro Mouri was about to tell Martin to take the elevator by himself when he suddenly noticed a strange handbag at the elevator door.
It was a big shopping bag, but it was not from the Mihua Department Store, but from another department store. The most important thing was that there was almost no one around, so where was the owner of the shopping bag?
"Could it be that a clear-headed and stupid college student went to the bathroom?" Martin also complained.
A man walked out of the crowd and came behind the three people: "You'd better not touch that bag... It might be a bomb."
"Bomb?" Maori Kogoro didn't panic. He just turned around and raised his eyebrows to look at the person who came. He was a thin man who looked to be nearly fifty years old. He was bald, wearing glasses, and carrying a large blue luggage bag on his shoulders. "How did you know?"
“Because…” The man looked terrified, unbuttoning his coat with trembling hands and pulling it open violently: “I’m in this state right now!”
There were more than a dozen small black square boxes on the man's body, tightly wrapped with tape, making him look like a human bomb ready to carry out a terrorist attack in the movies.
"Allahu Akbar!" Martin dubbed him casually, and then yawned listlessly: "Another bomb... shopping mall, bomb... By the way, has the city hall that was bombed by Moriya Teiji last time been repaired?"
"Bomb!" Maori Kogoro was scared: "What are you going to do? Calm down!"
"I'm not a criminal!" the man with a bomb tied to his body said in panic, sweat all over his face.
According to his description, he was suddenly knocked unconscious while using the toilet. When he woke up, a bomb was tied to his body. A mysterious man said that not only was there a bomb on him, but there were bombs placed in the elevators, escalators, and staircases on that floor of the mall. They were not allowed to call the police, and no one on that floor was allowed to leave.
"A bomb?" "There's a bomb?"
The hurried conversation between Kogoro Mouri and the bomb man was so loud that it attracted the attention of the surrounding guests and caused panic.
Someone ran over and asked, "Excuse me, is there a bomb? Where is it?"
Martin suddenly raised his hand, attracting everyone's attention to this strange and weird-looking mascot in doll costume: "I am the egg!"
Then his hand dropped down and pointed at the confused bomber: "He is cheating! He wants to cheat me, so he is cheating!"
People around: "..."
Dr. Agasa: “(▽)!”
Although the joke was dumb, the onlookers still followed Martin's finger and saw the bomb tied to the bomber's body. Then the news spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred, and the entire shopping mall was in chaos.
In the chaotic crowd, Miyano Akemi was observing carefully. Suddenly, she spotted a familiar figure and her eyes widened.
Xiu...cousin? Why did he come with me without disguise?
However, before Miyano Akemi could see clearly, the figure that looked like Akai Shuichi disappeared in the crowd.
Just when someone was about to escape regardless of the consequences, thick smoke suddenly burst out from the paper bags placed on the ground. Not only the two paper bags next to the two elevators, but also the two escalators and two fire stairs, a total of six paper bags were emitting thick smoke, which was obviously a warning from the real criminal.
The fear of the bomb explosion made everyone quiet down.
Maori Kogoro looked at the bomb man and asked, "Did the man who tied the bomb to you say he had any requests?"
"He said... he wanted us to find out who sent these thirteen red T-shirts." The bomber put his blue bag on the ground. "He said he could confirm that the sender is on this floor right now."
When they heard that there were thirteen red T-shirts again, the three men and one egg were stunned again: Oh my god, the client is here.
Martin looked at Maori Kogoro and said, "Uncle, 100,000 commission fee is too little. This is the money to buy your life."
Maori Kogoro's mouth twitched as he looked at the bomb on the other party: "I've encountered clients using me as an alibi several times before, but this is the first time I've seen a client want to kill me too."
(End of this chapter)