Chapter 2: Abductions
After picking up the phone and talking to someone, he walked downstairs quickly, and Maori Kogoro unexpectedly saw Xiaolan and a little boy wearing glasses, so he said, "Xiaolan, you're back!" Hey, who is this kid? ”
"Dad, what are you going to do at such a late hour?" Xiaolan didn't answer his question, but was more curious about what Kogoro was going to do at this time. "Well, I just received a commission, an entrepreneur's daughter was kidnapped, I'm going to go over and take a look now."
As he spoke, Kogoro started the car parked next to the door of the building, and before he could say anything, Xiaolan followed the little boy into the car. "Why did you get here?"
Although he was asking, he still drove the car. "Because he rushed straight up by himself!" Xiaolan said and glanced at the little boy fiercely.
"Who the hell is he?" Although he knew his identity, in order to hide what he knew, Mori Kogoro still pretended to know nothing and asked. "He is the child of Dr. Agasa's relative, and he wants to be fostered in our house because it is not easy to take care of him!"
"That's right! And what about your name? Bub! With that, Kogoro turned his head and glanced at the little boy. The little boy immediately straightened up and replied nervously, "Conan, my name is Conan Edogawa!" ”
"What a special name! Edogawa Ranbu and Conan Doyle's Conan, it seems that at least one of your parents is a detective enthusiast! "Huh!? Well! Conan could only reply in a panic to Kogoro's slightly meaningful words.
The car, which fell silent, soon arrived at the employer's home. I met my employer in the backyard, a stout middle-aged man with a brown suit and black tie, and the most unusual thing was the beard that was visibly upturned on both sides.
With a calm face, he handed a photo to Kogoro's hands. "The girl in the photo is my only daughter, Ko Jingko, who is 10 years old this year, and my housekeeper Aso saw the kidnapping process with his own eyes." The employer said a little nervously.
After hearing his words, Kogoro and Conan's eyes looked at Butler Aso at the same time. It was a thin old man with round-rimmed reading glasses. "What was the situation like?" Before Conan could speak, Kogoro spoke first.
"Ah, the young lady who had just come back was playing ball in the yard when suddenly a man in black rushed out of the corner, and after he grabbed the young lady, he said to me, 'Tell your master that if you want his daughter back, you will close the company for a month.' After that, he climbed the pine tree and escaped over the wall. ”
"What about the prisoner?" Kogoro continued to ask without hesitation. "Ah, I didn't see clearly because my eyes weren't very good." "Well, it doesn't seem easy to do!" Kogoro frowned suddenly, and muttered in a low voice.
"Damn, that guy not only wants the company to shut down for a month, but also wants money!" "Money!?" The more the employer thought about it, the more angry he became, and said, "Yes, just now the kidnapper called me and asked me to give him the 300 million yen he used." ”
"How come, sir, you can't hear it wrong!" Butler Aso looked very excited and nervous. "How is it possible, you don't talk nonsense!" The employer is visibly impatient.
Later, when Kogoro began to inquire about his employer, hostile companies, and enemies, a dog barked on the other side of the corner. The eyes of several people immediately looked over there, and the barking of the dog had stopped, only to see that the ball spinning on Conan's fingers attracted the attention of a large dog.
The employer was amazed at what he saw. "It's really unusual! Big Macs usually only make out with familiar people, and bark at the sight of strangers. ”
When he heard this, Kogoro suddenly came to his senses, and his eyes suddenly looked at Aso's housekeeper who secretly turned away. "Butler Aso, where are you going!"
"You just said that the man in black infiltrated the yard and kidnapped Miss, so why didn't the Big Mac call it? I'm afraid that the man in black didn't exist in the first place, and it was all just your design. ”
"Aso, you guy!" The employer immediately looked at Aso angrily, as if he wanted to beat people. "I'm really sorry, sir!" "Why do you want to do such a thing!?"
"I did it all by myself, I'm really sorry, sir!" "And where is Akiko now?" "It's in a nearby restaurant." When they heard this, the hearts of several people suddenly relaxed.
However, Kogoro felt that something was slightly wrong, and Conan in the corner also had a strange feeling. At this moment, a maid ran in in a panic. "Sir, I have your phone."
"Who's, let him wait!" Facing the angry lord, the maid hesitated. "However, this call ......" After seeing the maid's tangled appearance, the old man still took the phone unhappily.
"Hey, who's that!?" "300 million, you're ready, right!?" The gloomy words suddenly made the old man nervous. "Ah, who the hell are you!?" "I just called, and I'm the one who kidnapped your daughter."
"What, the prisoner is not ......" In his surprise, he didn't react when he heard his daughter's cry for help on the other side of the phone. I'm very impatient, if you don't hurry up and prepare the 300 million ransom, what will happen to your daughter is not certain! ”
"Please, I will definitely prepare 300 million, so please don't hurt your daughter!" Old Man replied to the kidnappers in a panic, hoping that his daughter would be safe.
Hearing this, Maori Kogoro whispered in the ear of the old man: "Continue to talk to the kidnappers and try to find out where the prisoner is." But before he could react, he directly leaned on the phone and whispered a retelling.
"Who's next to you, it can't be a policeman!" The kidnapper's words suddenly made Old Man Gu panic. "No, he's not a cop!" Perhaps hearing her father's previous question, Akiko suddenly shouted.
"Dad, this is the school warehouse, and there's a big chimney from the window!" "Damn!" The angry kidnapper immediately hung up the phone, interrupting Akiko's leak.
Hearing the information revealed by Akiko, Conan immediately took out a map and began to search for nearby schools and chimneys. Seeing his appearance, Kogoro also reacted.
Kogoro walked behind Conan, bent down to look at the map in his hand, and quickly memorized the locations of several places. "Conan and Dad, what are you two doing?" Xiaolan looked at the two of them very puzzled at this time.