"Ding Dong!"

On the third floor of the office, Gao Chengcai carried the little girl to the sofa in the living room, and there was a doorbell downstairs.

With the help of the bakery aunt, the girl changed into his shirt and slept quite peacefully after taking the fever-reducing medicine, so she didn't have to worry about it for the time being.

Gao Cheng exited the room, looked at the office downstairs, and found a young brown-haired beauty standing at the entrance of the building: "Hello, this is the Chenghu Detective Agency, is there something wrong?" ”

"I'm sorry to bother you so late," the woman said, with a tired look on her face, "but I have something to talk to Detective Joto about anyway." ”

"I'm Chenghu Gaocheng."

Gao Cheng opened the office: "Please inside." ”

The office will meet the sofa, and Gao Cheng made a cup of tea for the woman: "Come, please use it." ”

"Thank you," the woman's face improved, she chuckled and nodded, and took out a business card from her bag, "Detective Joto, my name is Shinnaya Kahori, and this time I came mainly because of my parents. ”

"New name Kahori?" Gao Cheng took the business card and thought bitterly, "How do you feel as if you've heard it somewhere?" ”

"My father is a new name, Ren Taro," Kaohori explains, "and the Detective Left Script series is my father's work. ”

"It turns out to be the author of the left text!" Gao Cheng thought about it and said enthusiastically, "I have also read the Detective Left Text series, and I have always wanted to visit Ling Zun, but unfortunately I don't have time." ”

"My father often said that he wanted to see your realistic left text, saying that you were the resurrected left text."

"That's all media nonsense."

Gao Cheng smiled, and said, "I don't know what Miss Xiang Baoli is looking for me?" Does Ling Zun want to see me? ”

"No," Shina Kahori's expression darkened slightly, "To be honest, my father has been missing for almost two months......"

"Missing?" Gao Cheng was stunned and said, "But I remember that Detective Zuo Wen didn't start serializing again recently?" ”

"What I said is true," Shina Kahori said urgently, "My father and mother really disappeared a week before the serialization began, leaving only a note saying 'go out a little', and I asked all my relatives and friends, but no one knew their whereabouts!" Only at midnight every Saturday, the manuscript will be faxed to the editorial office regularly. ”

Gao Cheng solemnized: "Isn't there any information on the fax from the place where the letter was sent?" ”

"Nothing," Shina Kahori clenched her fingers and said preoccupiedly, "They haven't contacted me for nearly two months, this kind of thing has never happened before, I was worried about whether something happened to them, so I called the police, but because there were no threatening phone calls, and the manuscript was faxed regularly, they told me not to worry......

"I've also asked other detective agencies, but their answers are all the same, and I can only ask you the city detective that my father once mentioned."

Shina Kaori choked up and shed tears: "If you can't do it......"

"No way?" Gao Cheng raised his eyebrows, slapped the table and stood up, and said with an awe-inspiring expression, "There is nothing that Gao Cheng can't do in my city, since your father regularly transmits manuscripts, let's go to the editorial office to have a look!" ”

"Huh?"

The new name Kaori looked at Gao Cheng in a daze, and after reacting, he hurriedly wiped the corners of his eyes happily.

"Thank you, Detective Joto."

"Don't worry, I'll find your parents!" Gao Cheng took his new name Xiang Baoli downstairs to stop a taxi, and suddenly paused, "By the way, the fare should be reimbursed, right?" ”

……

University Pavilion Press, Editorial Department.

Under the leadership of the new name Xiang Baoli, Gao Cheng found the editor of the left text series, a chubby honest young man.

"Yes, the manuscript of the new teacher will come in every week."

The young man was quite excited when he saw Gao Cheng: "You are a city detective, right?" I read the report on the serial murder case a few days ago, and I heard that you were also involved, and you saw through the murderer at a glance. ”

"It's not that exaggerated, I didn't actually do anything, but it's true that I've had a lot of trouble."

Gao Cheng smiled awkwardly and continued to ask, "Mr. Editor, are those manuscripts really written by the new famous teacher?" ”

"Yes," the young man affirmed, "although the words are typed on a word processor, the font is exactly the same as the one used by the teacher, and there is his autograph next to the title every time, do you want me to show you the manuscript?" ”

"Is that okay? Then bother you. ”

The detective left text series stopped serialization ten years ago.,This time the title of the new work is called "The Apex of One-Half",Gao Cheng hasn't actually read much yet.,It's quite fresh when I hold the manuscript.。

"I confirmed it when I came here last time," Shina Kahori sat next to Gao Cheng, "and it was indeed my father's signature." ”

"I see," the editor said with a smile to Asaka, "Ling Zun must have just been immersed in writing and forgot to contact you, don't worry." ”

"But ......"

"Even if Mr. New Name forgets it, Mrs. New Name won't forget it, right?"

Gao Cheng took the original manuscript and looked at it carefully, and asked in a deep voice, "When was the last time you and Mr. Xinming met?" ”

"This,I've seen it a few times before I started serializing.,But I really haven't met a week ago......"

"Was there anything unusual about Mr. Shina at that time?"

"Unusual place? I don't think there's anything wrong with that," the editor recalled, "and if anything, it's a bit strange to re-serialize Detective Zuo Text, we asked the teacher to serialize it four years ago, but the teacher always said that Zuo Script is dead and can't be resurrected......

"We almost gave up, but I didn't expect the teacher to call about two months ago and say that he was going to re-serialize," the editor said with a smile, "I think he must have heard about Detective Joto, and our editor-in-chief was thinking about whether to ask you to interact with the weekly magazine." ”

Gao Cheng was not in the mood to talk about other business now, and asked, "Is there anything else strange?" ”

"Uh, this...... The teacher, who is obviously very gentle, has added a very provocative declaration to the preface this time, I don't know if it is unusual," the young editor pointed to the beginning of the original manuscript, "Look, this is it, 'I warn the famous detectives of the whole country, those who think that their minds are above me, come and find out the truth of this incident!'" ’”

"The truth of the incident? Could it be that Mr. Xinming deliberately disappeared because of this, right? Gao Chenghu said suspiciously.

"No, I think the teacher wants to make the new work more attractive, because there have been a lot of phone calls or letters lately speculating about the prisoners in the work and so on."

The young editor said quite happily: "One more thing, the new teacher also appeared in the middle this time, appearing as an old friend of the left text in China, setting himself as a slow-selling person living in France, and the entire series of nearly forty books, this is the first time it has happened!" ”

"That's right."

Gao Cheng was a little disappointed, and he couldn't ask anything too useful at all in the editorial department.

"Can you help me make a copy of these manuscripts?"

The editor was stunned: "Huh? Of course. ”

Taking advantage of the editor's departure to photocopy the original manuscript, Gao Cheng turned to the new name Xiang Baoli: "Are those manuscripts really written by your father?" Or is someone forcing him to write? ”

The new name Kaori shook his head: "It's indeed my father's style, if there's anything different, it's that when my father appears in it, the dialogue is weird." ”

"Dialogue?"

"Well, unlike the other dialogues, it looks a little messy," Kaobori nodded, "At first I thought it was a clerical error ...... my father."

"It's not a clerical error," the young editor said back with a stack of manuscripts, "We were going to revise it too, but the teacher told me not to change it without permission before the serialization, and said that if we didn't publish it like this, we would stop writing immediately." ”

Gao Cheng was surprised to take a thick bundle of manuscripts: "It's photocopied so quickly?" ”

"I happened to have a photocopy, so I brought it to Detective Joto first."

"Thank you so much, the cost is ......"

"Nothing, just some photocopies," the young editor looked forward to, "and if I could, could I talk to you about cooperation next time?" ”

"Then let's wait until we find a new gentleman."

Gao Cheng and the young editor left each other's contact information, and then left with all the manuscripts.

On the way back, he didn't continue to be with the new name Kaori, but he agreed to contact him later, and he felt that the new name Rentaro might have left some message in the manuscript, and he needed to think about it.

"Miss Champoli, as soon as I find any clues, I will contact you immediately."

"Thank you." Kahori was moved to tears again, if even Gao Cheng can't help it, I'm afraid even if she goes to find another famous detective Mori Kogoro, the result will be similar, Gao Cheng is already her last hope.

……

The next morning, the Joto Detective Agency.

The girl's eyelashes on the sofa in the living room on the third floor moved, and she gradually opened her eyes, looking around suspiciously and warily.

It's not a lab, it's not a place for organization confinement, it's just an ordinary house, judging by the mess and some items, it's probably a single man's room.

The girl remembered last night.

It seems that she fell in front of a young man who looked like Kudo Shinichi, and I vaguely heard that she was going to be sent to the police station......

"No, you can't go to the police station."

The girl got up a little weakly and put on her big slippers, and found that her clothes had been washed and she was wearing a loose shirt.

Thinking of something, the girl's face turned red, and she quickly exhaled softly, and a trace of bitterness flashed on her face.

She touched her hungry belly, stepped on her slippers and walked into the kitchen, frowned when she saw the almost unused utensils, and turned to the side of the refrigerator, and was a little stunned when she saw that the refrigerator was empty.

I looked for the cabinet next to it, and when I turned to a few boxes full of instant noodles, the girl's whole little face couldn't help but wrinkle together.

In the office on the second floor, Gao Cheng was lying on the table and falling asleep, with the manuscript of "One-Half of the Apex" messily placed in front of him, and a notebook for analyzing codes fell to the ground, and there were some crumpled papers next to him.

The little girl turned the handle outside the door, found that the door was not locked, and when she pushed the door, she saw an office that was even more messy than the upstairs.

"Joto Detective Agency ......"

Quite unexpectedly, she glanced at Gao Cheng, who was asleep, the corners of the girl's mouth were slightly upturned, and then she noticed the paper ball littered on the ground, and a big dog who was also sleeping was biting a paper ball in its mouth.

The big dog was very alert, and his ears moved and he got up immediately, but when he saw that it was the little girl from last night, he sat back quietly.

The girl couldn't help but touch the well-behaved big dog and picked up the paper ball on the ground.

It can be seen that Gao Cheng is studying text codes, but he seems to be in trouble.

Standing on tiptoe to pick up a manuscript, the girl looked at it with relish.

"Half of the apex? Looks like a code has been added in particular. The girl closed the manuscript and chuckled.

"It's dawn......"

Gao Cheng yawned and rubbed his eyes in a daze.

Stretching his waist, he suddenly saw the girl sitting on the sofa and was slightly stunned.

"You're awake, little sister."

Gao Cheng walked up to the girl and took the manuscript from the girl's hand: "Can you read these manuscripts?" My brother still has to work, and I'll show you when my brother finishes working, okay? ”

The girl was quiet, which made Gao Cheng breathe a sigh of relief, and he sat back down and continued to study the manuscript with a headache.

The code was too much trouble for him, and he didn't see anything all night, and maybe there was no code at all.

Grabbing his hair and sighing softly, his fingers hesitantly resting on the microphone.

He was going to ask Conan about it, anyway, Conan would definitely be interested in this kind of thing, but it felt so shameless that he was laughed at by Uncle Maori last time......

"One-half apex." The girl suddenly spoke mysteriously.

"What?" Gao Cheng looked at the girl who was quietly looking at a book of reasoning, and reacted, "I'll send you back later, by the way, I don't know ...... you yet"

"One of the keys to the code is the 'apex of one-half'," the girl said flatly, "The top word of each column of those dialogues is only one-half, that is to say, the two words together will form a word, Mr. Shin Ming is in France every time, according to the rule of the French silent h, and then remove the similar words in the combination of words......"

Gao Cheng looked at the little girl in a daze, and followed the girl's reasoning to look at the manuscript again: "This is?" ”

"Yes," the girl's gaze turned to Gao Cheng, "Mr. Xinmin's first dialogue is 'Come and save me', the second is 'where I am now', the third is 'Kabido City Hotel', and the fourth is 'Room 2407'......"

Gao Cheng's hand dropped the manuscript with a snap, and his eyes trembled and looked at the girl tightly, with an ordinary child's breath under the big wavy curls, as if he was facing an adult.

This little imp......

"Who the hell are you?" Gao Cheng's throat seemed to be stuck, and the whole world seemed to be left with only a little girl, "You...... What is your name? ”

The girl's hand movements paused, brushed the hair from her ears, and swept her eyes over the various mystery books on the bookshelf on the side: "Gray...... Gray Plains mourns. ”

"Ashbaranda?"

Gao Cheng was in a slight trance, and suddenly seemed to be back to when he was chasing Conan TV.

He wasn't a mourner, but at that time, the role of Gray Plains Mourning still left an indelible impression on his heart, and after coming to Conan World, he also thought about when he would see Xiao Mourn, but he didn't expect this day to come so suddenly and so plainly.

Casual and clear with a hint of alienation and cold ice blue eyes, with a tan hair, a combination of cuteness and maturity......

Coupled with the adult clothes at the beginning, such a strange child should indeed be a little mourning.

It's just that the name "Gray Plains" wasn't chosen with Dr. Asasa?

"What's wrong?" A look of doubt flashed in the girl's clear eyes, "Don't you want to go yet?" Maybe it's too late. ”

"Ahh

Gao Cheng came back to his senses, didn't think much about it, and hurriedly took his mobile phone and went out: "There are still some biscuits in the office, if you are hungry, you can suppress your stomach, and there are instant noodles upstairs." ”