Chapter 437: Uncle Starts Again
"Whewββ!"
Late at night on the street, Hattori drove a motorcycle with Kazuha to leave Sanno Temple and prepare to return to Osaka, suddenly an arrow shot from behind, narrowly brushed past the two of them and knocked off the rearview mirror directly, and the two were frightened when a guy with a bow and arrow chased after him from behind.
"It's that guy again!"
Hattori's face changed, and he turned around an intersection and chased after him closely: "Kazuha, hurry up!" β
Two locomotives sped through the construction site one after the other, and finally stopped outside the park.
Hattori glanced at the locomotive abandoned by the murderer, turned his gaze to the woods in front of him, and hurriedly took off his helmet and followed.
"You're just staying here, you know?"
"Heiji!"
The woods of the park were quiet, the stone-paved brook reflected in the moonlight, and a tram rumbled by, and when Hattori arrived, he saw the masked man who attacked him waiting for a long time across the man-made stream, with two wooden knives in his hands, and immediately threw one over when he saw him.
"Hmph, you want to compare with me, don't you? No problem! β
Hattori chuckled and picked up the wooden knife, he was not afraid of swordsmanship, but he couldn't help frowning when he saw the mask man's posture.
The whole body is full of flaws......
"Drink!"
Hattori tightened his wooden knife in his hand and stepped across the water to concentrate on the attack.
"Bang!"
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Sanno Temple, Uncle Maori had a lot of thoughts about the murder of the tea house that happened, but when he thought that the Buddha statue would be consecrated the day after tomorrow, he immediately deflated again, and sighed with a sad face on Xiaolan's back.
"If it goes on like this, it's definitely too late......"
"Who the hell said there wasn't a hurry?"
After Xiao Ai went to sleep and rested, Gao Cheng and Conan still stayed in the meditation room to help the uncle study the treasure map.
Uncle this guy purely deserves it, even Conan and Hattori can't solve the puzzle for a while, this guy is still in the mood to run to the teahouse.
After a long time, this will be like a dead dog again, if it weren't for the treasure map, it might be related to the Genji Hotaru case, Gao Cheng is too lazy to bother here.
"Oh no!" Yuan Zi hurriedly ran over in his pajamas, out of breath, "Clothes, Hattori have been attacked!" β
"Huh?"
"He's injured now, and he's been sent to Meixiaolu Hospital by Heye!"
Mei Xiaolu Hospital, when Gao Cheng and Conan followed Xiaolan to the hospital, Hattori was still unconscious, and there were also Officer Ayakoji and Officer Otaki who received the news.
The injuries are not serious, but they are not light, mainly because the sharp blade wound on the shoulder has shed a lot of blood, as for the murder weapon, the short knife, because it is very likely to be the murder weapon that killed Sakura Masa, has been taken away by the police for testing......
Gao Cheng stood silently to the side, looking at the comatose service on the hospital bed, his face slightly gloomy.
The murderer's purpose does not seem to be as simple as Hattori thinks.
It was his negligence, and he didn't expect that the other party's swordsmanship was not even Hattori's opponent......
It was noon the next day when Hattori woke up again, but the guy didn't learn a lesson at all, and he sneaked out of the hospital when he found the opportunity.
"Don't you really have to stay in the hospital to recuperate?" Conan and Takasei followed Hattori.
"I'm fine."
Hattori got on the Kyoto train and wore a hat to cover his head with a bandage on his head.
"I haven't asked yet," Gao Cheng said curiously, "even if you were attacked, how did you get like this?" β
"What can I do, that guy is really weird," Hattori said, holding his arms, "It seems like he deliberately led me into the woods to fight me with a wooden knife at first...... I've never seen his swordsmanship like that, and he seems to have an iron bar in his bracer for a shield, and besides, when Kazuha pretended to bring the police over to get rid of that guy, he actually left his short knife on the scene......"
"A swordsmanship you've never seen before?" Gao Cheng was stunned.
"It's not just that," Hattori pulled out a bag of tips, "When I was dueling him, that guy actually tried to pick up the bag I dropped, and the more I thought about it, the more confused I ......felt."
"Is there anything special about this?"
"Oh, there's a crystal bead inside," Hattori carefully held the cloth bag, "This bead was my first love when I was a child, and I only saw her once, so I take this ...... with me every time I come to Kyoto."
"You've only seen someone else once and then become your first love?" Gao Cheng took the cloth bag and checked the crystal beads inside, "But why did that girl give you this?" β
"No, I happened to sneak into a temple at that time, and then I saw it through the lattice window," a look of longing appeared on Hattori's face, "She was singing under the cherry blossom tree in the courtyard, but soon I didn't know where she went, and I ran over and found only this bead she dropped...... Although it was like a dream, I felt like we would meet again one day......"
Gao Cheng held back a smile and patted Hattori: "Your guy's obsession is quite deep, shouldn't you really like that girl?" What about Kazuha? β
"I'm ......" Hattori opened his mouth and snatched back the cloth bag in annoyance, "Don't be verbose!" β
"Although I don't want to hit you," Gao Cheng said with a smile, "But is this crystal bead really your first love?" β
"What?"
"The temple you sneaked into back then should be Shannei Temple, right?"
"How do you know?" Hattori looked at Gao Cheng like a ghost.
"What's so strange, don't you think this crystal bead looks familiar?" Gao Cheng put the photo of the stolen Buddha statue of the main Buddha of Sannoji Temple in front of Hattori and Conan, "Haven't you found it yet?" Buddha statues often use crystal beads to make the white hair in the middle of their foreheads, and this crystal bead is likely to have fallen under the cherry blossom tree when Hotaru Genji stole the Buddha statue eight years ago......"
"How, how?" Hattori's eyes twitched, and he wanted to refute, but his mind quickly became occupied by the same thoughts.
"Although there are still many doubts, it should be certain that there is something wrong with the Buddha statue that was stolen eight years ago," Gao Cheng continued to infer, "It just so happens that your photos have recently appeared in magazines, not only photos of crystal beads, but also photos of you when you were a child...... I think the other party should have looked for you back then, but they didn't find it. β
"That's why the other party attacked Hattori?" Conan stared at Gao Cheng strangely, "It's really strange, I used to leave it until the end to reason, why is it early this time?" β
Gao Cheng's face darkened: "What words?" Hattori has been attacked twice, and of course I have to find the killer sooner...... What's next? Any clues? β
"Of course, I'm going to ask those people, those guys are still very suspicious."
Sanno Temple, Uncle Maori calmly found Saijo Taiga and others, and the dancer Chiga Ling also had to adopt her mother Yamakura, Mizuo, and even Ayakoji came here.
Xiao Ai looked at everyone, walked to the side and called Gao Cheng: "Yes, there is a new clue...... The uncle called everyone over......"
"Huh?" Gao Cheng looked confused, "Uncle, doesn't that guy care about the Buddha statue?" β
"Say that if you find the murderer, you can find the Buddha statue," Xiao Wai glanced at the uncle and said calmly, "Anyway, you guys should come over quickly, otherwise I can't guarantee what will become of it." β