Chapter 146: Confused

Uncle Maori carefully asked Yumi about the details of the car accident, knowing that the person was in a car accident on the way to Poaro in a hurry, everyone was nervous and slightly relieved, ruling out the possibility of homicide and suicide, and the complexity of the case was obviously reduced all at once.

In Yumi's narrative, there is a small detail that caught Conan's and my attention, and that is that the owner of the mobile phone had asked a nearby neighbor for directions on the way to Poaro, which was a very inconspicuous but important point in solving the case.

Sorting out the existing information, things suddenly became clear.

First, as we have analyzed before, the person who lost the mobile phone obviously deliberately left the mobile phone here, as if he was going to hand it over to someone, but suddenly hurried to Boaro, the purpose of his coming to Boaro is nothing more than the mobile phone, so he left the mobile phone, but came to find the mobile phone, there is only one reason, he found that he put the mobile phone in the wrong place; second, according to the second call of the person who called before, it can be known that he is looking for the ringtone by making a call, then it is obvious that the person who called is looking for this mobile phone, this is undoubtedly a transaction, the transaction item is this second-hand mobile phone, and the two are not familiar with each other, maybe they haven't met each other, and the trust between each other is very low, otherwise they wouldn't have traded face-to-face, but used such an unreliable method. We can even deduce from this that why the two people who are trading do not want to face each other? The answer is scruples. This shows that one of the two parties to the transaction may have a big background, and has the ability to retaliate or eat black, even if it is not so exaggerated, at least it is illegal and shady deed, and even the other party can't parry the police, so the two guard against each other; So the owner of the phone got it wrong, that is, the correct place to trade must have some similarities with Poaro, and it must be a restaurant. Otherwise, the owner of the phone would not have been mistaken for such an obvious mistake.

In this way, the thinking is much clearer, and the rest is to find the right place to trade and find the person who called.

I could think of these things, and Conan could think of them too, and I tilted my head with a straw in my mouth, only to see Conan worrying about the strange-looking numbers in the phone. It seems that he wanted to figure out the contents of the transaction first. The only thing that people can't understand in this phone is this weird phone book, if it weren't for this phone and weird, then the content of the transaction is probably this phone book.

I guess it should be a black account, a password or something. Speaking of which, this way of recording seems a little familiar.

For example, one of the numbers 1101000340 seems strange at first glance, but if you link it to the number 1031000350 before it, the connection between 1101 and 1031 is more subtle. Speaking of which, when we were on a mission in the Middle East, we were more accustomed to saying the 24-hour clock as a four-digit number when checking the time of the operation, such as 1530 at 3:30 p.m., so that the time representation was very clear and would not be wrong, and in the same way, 1031 and 1101 were more like ......

Thinking of this, Conan and I looked at the wall calendar on the wall of the coffee shop. That's right, it's the date, isn't November 31 and November 1 just together?

Oh, I remember, the record form of the Tanaka family's secret account that I saw a few days ago is similar to this, no wonder it looks a little familiar. In this way, the numbers of 340 and 350 in the back are probably the number of money, for example, if the account is 3.4 million on November 1st, it becomes 1101000340, so it makes perfect sense......

The only thing I don't understand is why the names in the phone book are pseudonyms, and some people have inexplicable black dots behind their names.

But looking at the old brother's expression, ah, here he comes, it's the kind of face with a color, the corners of his mouth are slightly upturned, his eyes are bright as if they are shining, and he has an expression that only I know my stinky fart, probably he has analyzed the case to the point of eight or nine, I don't think there is any need to talk more.

But what's going on with this delicate mood? Obviously, I refused to help my brother, but when my brother really solved the case without any use, my heart was a little empty. People, it's hypocrisy.

"That...... This number looks so strange......" Conan said with a shy face, his face slightly flushed and hesitant to the adults present.

Then there's Conan's cute time, this guy, obviously seventeen years old, can actually pretend to have an innocent and cute expression without changing his face and heartbeat, and use a child's tone to show these adults on the scene to sell cuteness as a hint, which makes me chill. This guy ...... It can't be a psychopath, right?

"Here, Xiaohui, refill the glass of juice for free! It's not good for a child to drink too much carbonated acid!" Xiao Zi handed me a glass of orange juice with a smile on her face.

"Thank you, Sister Xiaozi, you are so nice! Your boyfriend is such a happy person!" I didn't care about slandering my brother, I quickly turned my head and gave Xiaozi a sweet smile.

"I hate ~ boyfriend or something, Xiaohui is so cute!" Xiao Zi blushed with a drunken expression.

Ah, that's so troublesome, obviously I ordered Coke just now, shouldn't I refill the Coke? Carbonic acid is a monument in the history of human beverages, why should I change it to orange juice? Everyone knows that smoking is harmful, but there are not so many people who smoke? Fruit juice or something, the most annoying.

Luckily, no one was looking at me, and I didn't have to force myself to drink.

To get back to the point, regarding the case, in fact, the facts of the case are clear, as long as the person who called is finally found. This is difficult to say, in fact, it is also simple, like this kind of transaction, the two sides do not trust each other, kicking, a little wind and grass will be shocked, not to mention that it has been two days since the owner of the mobile phone had a car accident, and the transaction that should have been carried out normally, not only did the transaction not be completed, even the transaction object could not be contacted, and the important transaction item mobile phone, was actually answered by an irrelevant woman (Xiao Zi), maybe it has been leaked, the person over there has already been anxious to hit the wall everywhere, right?

......The more anxious you are, the more likely you are to make mistakes, and the person who is in a hurry to find the phone has probably tried many ways to find the phone, right? Ask the telecommunications company directly for the owner of the mobile phone number and the home address.

Yumi, who has been reminded by Conan, has been calling the telecommunications company to ask if anyone has asked them about the mobile phone number and the address of the registrant in the past two days. The area of rice is not large, the population is not large, and the time has been shortened to the two days since the owner of the mobile phone had a car accident, and there should not be many people who call the telecommunications company to ask for the address.

It is a pity that Yumi does not have an official investigation document, otherwise he could have directly applied for access to the call information of the telecommunications company and found the addresses and identities of all the people who called the telecommunications company to inquire about the address in the past two days.

But it's not a big deal. Because Yumi quickly got a reply from the telecommunications company, there were only three people who called them for their addresses in the past two days: one from a pay phone on the platform of the rice flower station, one from a sporting goods store called Apollo, and one from a restaurant called Colombo. The reasons were that the job seeker had lost the slip of paper recording the interview location and had to find the interviewer over the phone, and that he wanted to know where his runaway daughter's phone had come from, and that he had accidentally taken the mobile phone of a friend he had met during the trip and wanted to return it. Moreover, it is also important to note that when that person is on the phone, there is a sudden loud sound on the other side of the phone, which is enough to interrupt the call.

Obviously, only the third person mentioned the mobile phone among the three people, and he was the most suspicious, but because he didn't know which three locations the three people were, so he had to call the three places separately to ask, and the result was unfortunate, the men who called in the three locations looked suspicious, and there was a lot of noise in all three locations, and the elimination method was gone.

How do you find someone like this...... I thought about it as I played with the juice in my hand. It's not that I want to compete with Conan to solve the case, or I want to help Conan solve the case or something, but if I don't find something to do for myself, I'm too idle to sit here.

"Judging by your expression, it seems that you still have doubts. Conan looked at me with a grin. The smile on this guy's face made me feel like my IQ was being mocked.

"Hmph, I know everything you know. I pouted a little unconvinced. Detective awesome, huh?

"Well, although you are very good at speculating on people's hearts in psychological analysis and are also very imaginative, there are still omissions in the details. Conan patted me on the shoulder and looked down at me with the gaze of a senior, "I know where the prisoner is." ”

"Huh, bragging, you?" I looked at him with disdain, and it didn't make sense that he couldn't think of anything he could think of.

"Hey, hey. If you use QQ emojis to describe Conan's lewd smile at the moment, it should be called "funny".

"Do you know why Boaro is called Boaro?"

"Why?"

"You know Agatha Christie?"

"You know, that English female detective novelist, the one who has written more than Shakespeare?" I think back then, my father's bookshelf still had the complete works of this author in English, and it was quite interesting. Especially the "Murder on the Orient Express", when I watched it back then, I couldn't stop the case one after another. The main character, Detective Hercule Poirot, I think is second only to Sherlock Holmes as a good detective. Wait, Poirot?

Boaro?

No, would??

I looked at Conan suspiciously. I don't want my conjecture to be true.

"What's the matter? Didn't you think of it? It's the great detective Hercule Poirot, the name of this shop is the same as this detective's name. Seeing my blank expression, Conan was surprised: "It's not like you who is so dull." ”

"Can you tell me, then, why Poirot became Poirot, at least Poirot?" I glared at Conan through gritted teeth.

"Oh, Japanese transliteration, you know, Japanese tongue curls are not very good, isn't it normal to add a syllable?"

So it's really annoying to talk about Japanese English or something.

"Did you read the original English version before? It's no wonder you didn't think the two were the same. Conan looked at me sympathetically, but his sympathetic expression quickly turned to schadenfreude: "Anyway, though, this reasoning is that I won." ”

I remember saying that "reasoning doesn't mean you win or lose, because there's only one truth......

I'm so unwilling, I was actually ridiculed by my brother in terms of IQ...... orz。

By the same token, the real location where the owner of the phone got it wrong was probably the Colombo restaurant, which was also named after the detective. Ignoring my frustration, Conan quickly returned to his calm and thoughtful thinking when he solved the case.

"Then why are all the names in the phone pseudonyms?"

"Because those are not the names of people, but the abbreviations of some institutions. ”

"Then why do some names have black dots behind them?"

"It's probably used to mark the difference between incoming and disbursing. ”

"Then why are the accounts dated between October and November?"

"Isn't this time just the election period, just like the election car that rewarded Zhou Ping just now, remember? Maybe that's it. ”

"I see. "Once I understood that Conan had indeed found the key to solving the case one step ahead of me, I simply asked all the things I hadn't figured out yet, and Conan answered me all without hesitation.

At this point, the event solves all the puzzles. A man didn't know how to get a certain parliamentarian's political black gold account, and then extorted, the two agreed that one of them left the mobile phone in the restaurant under the guise of eating, and the other went to the restaurant to recycle the mobile phone under the guise of looking for the mobile phone, but unfortunately, the trader put the mobile phone in the wrong place, and I died in a car accident when I came back in a hurry to find the mobile phone, which led to the interruption of the transaction, and the mobile phone fell into Xiao Zi's hands by mistake.

The incident itself is not complicated, but the accident by accident made this incident a blur, but fortunately, our detective Conan was discerning, and he was gratifying. But why am I so upset?

"Then let's go to Colombo now and ask the person who called the store! Since that restaurant has been designated as a trading location, eighty percent of the people who called are frequent customers of that store, maybe we can meet them when we go!" Yumi, who also figured out the direction of solving the case under Conan's prompting, said with an excited expression.

"I'll go too!" Xiao Zi said unexpectedly: "I'm also curious about this matter!

"Ah, I'm sorry, I'm not going. "Knowing everything, I'm not interested in going to Conan's double reed performance anymore, and I'm so tired that I want to sleep, so let's go back.

"Eh, Xiaohui, aren't you going with you?" Yumi, like everyone else, looked at me with a surprised expression, "I remember Miwako said that you are a very active child. ”

"Well, I'm not going, anyway, there's an uncle, and I'll definitely use my name to reason to solve the problem, I don't know why, I'm so sleepy now, I really want to go back to sleep. I yawned, rubbed my eyes, and said. I really can't think about sleeping, when I think about it, I'm really sleepy, obviously I was fine just now, but now I'm very sleepy.

"Well, the weather is so good today, it's warm, and it's normal to be sleepy, so you can go back to sleep, and leave the case to my sister." Yumi winked at me cutely.

"Well, then I'll go back first, goodbye, everyone. I got up from my seat and saluted the crowd obediently.

"Uh-huh, go ahead, go ahead. Ah, wait a minute," Yumi nodded, suddenly remembering something that stopped me: "By the way, I forgot to tell you something." ”

"What's the matter?" I tilted my head to look at Yumi, a little puzzled.

"Don't look at me like that, it's uncomfortable. Yumi fiddled with her bow tie a little unnaturally, half-crouched down and looked at me, "Did you see Miwako on the warship that went to Maizuru last time?"

"Maizuru? Oh, the Zeus one? "But it was just a quick glance, and I didn't have much chance to say hello to Officer Sato.

"You didn't say hello to her, did you? That guy has been whispering in my ear for a long time, I'm going crazy, really. Yumi sighed and whispered in my ear, "Miwako is going to go on a blind date next weekend, you must come, maybe there is a place for you to help." ”

Sato ...... Ah, Sister Miwako is going on a blind date?, with whom?" I was taken aback. Police Officer Sato would actually agree to go on a blind date? What are you kidding? With her character, she would never agree to decide her life's events in the form of a blind date.

"I don't know, I'll find out when the time comes, the location is in Shuidu Building, I'll inform you of the specific time, this matter must not let them succeed! I'm a member of Takagi!" Yumi swore to his fist.

It turned out that he wanted to match Takagi and Sato, thinking of Officer Takagi's stunned face, can this kind of guy Officer Sato look up to? No, maybe the shrewd and powerful Officer Sato unexpectedly likes Officer Takagi's type, after all, he has an absolute advantage in IQ.

"Then my role is ......," I asked cautiously. There seems to be some kind of premonition in my heart.

"Of course it's a disturbance, it's a disruption! If it doesn't work, you rush in and call Miwako Mom, for this big show...... No, it's Takagi's happiness, I'm going to have to work hard! It's going to be fun...... Ah no, it will definitely make Takagi and Miwako happy!"

Hey, you're leaking your heart.

"Okay, you can call me again then. I replied weakly, bowed to the crowd, and walked out: "Then I'll go back, guys." ”

"It's strange, that guy hasn't been involved lately, wasn't he interested in this kind of thing before?" Conan muttered in a low voice, "What if my uncle uses him as an example and even I am not allowed to go with him?"

Hey, I hear you all, please be quiet.

"Xiaohui didn't drink any juice, is he in a bad mood? Looking at his expression just now, he didn't seem to be very happy. Xiao Zi's worried voice made my heart warm slightly. Hawkers, I'm sorry, I really don't dare drink that.

As soon as I stepped out of Poaro, my phone rang suddenly.

"Hey, it's me, what's the matter?" I turned to the stairs outside the office and answered the phone, anyway, Conan and they just went out, and there would be no acquaintances here.

"Young master, it's me, Grass and Tree Plant," the old housekeeper's somewhat old voice came from the earpiece: "There was a little problem in the merger and acquisition of the Tanaka family, and the Tanaka family didn't seem to know where to get 100 million yuan of funds and wanted to resist our acquisition." ”

"Well," I muttered, "we don't have enough money?"

"Yes, because of various things, our funds have been spending a lot recently, and the acquisition of this company is already our biggest strength, if this 100 million is added in......" Cao Mu's words are not finished, I also understand, if this 100 million is added, the eight achievements of the merger and acquisition will be blown, and we will not have any absolute power to crush it through commercial means, but ......

I didn't intend to take a general approach from the start.

"The kidnapping is done. I spoke softly.

“...... Kidnapping?" there was a noticeable pause in the voice on the other end of the phone.

"Well, I remember that the head of the Tanaka family, Tanaka Naoyoshi, is a good gambler, isn't it? Just kidnap in the name of the casino, let the woman Belier go, and deal with a man like Tanaka Naoyoshi who is greedy for money and lustful, Beryl is the best at it, tell Beryl, squeeze out all the liquidity in the hands of the old man Tanaka. If you can't do this kind of trivial thing, you can die yourself. I said coldly.

"This ...... Young master, this is a crime, please think twice. Cao Mu hesitated, but hesitated to speak.

...... "Really, what am I hesitating about, haven't I already made a decision? Could it be that after being with Conan for a long time, I really think that I am a good person?"

"Let's do it. ”

"However, at the critical moment when we were buying Tanaka, the people of the Tanaka family were suddenly kidnapped, and it was easy for the police to lock us down. "Grass and trees still tried to convince me. He was nearly seventy years old, and he had no children, no daughters, and no family, so it was not a big deal for him not to commit a crime, but he didn't want me to go down the wrong path. It's true, it's just to help him redeem a villa, and it's not a lot of kindness, so people like me don't have anything to expect from me anymore.

"Just do it, tell Beryl, she'll know what to do. "There's one thing I can't say to the grass and trees, and that is that my time doesn't allow me to move forward step by step, I have to run! Rush up! I can only smash it with my fist when I encounter an obstacle! I don't have time to detour. The Seven Deadly Sins Those people can be said to be familiar with kidnapping this kind of pediatric thing, there is no need to worry at all, after all, it is a senior mercenary who can't even be retained, and the hands and tails will be handled very cleanly, and the grass and trees don't know those people, but I know it very well. The only thing to worry about is that Conan has already followed Uncle Maori and them to Colombo to solve the case, as long as he doesn't meet Conan, I don't think Beryl will be in any big trouble, with Takagi and those people, they can't stop her at all.

"Okay, young master. After being silent for a while, seeing that I was determined, the grass and trees finally responded. A low sigh could seem to be heard on the other side of the phone.

I hung up the phone and went back to the office, I lay on the sofa in the room, the room was quiet, only the ticking of the clock, I stared out the window at the wind-blown branches, and for a moment I didn't even know what to think. I can't seem to sleep well for a while, so forget it, let's look at the photo album.

Flipping through the photo album from the bookshelf, I flipped through the pages one by one.

Eh...... Xiaolan was so cute when she was a child? yes, her mother, the lawyer, seems to be a big beauty, and Xiaolan will also become a big beauty, right? Is this a picture of two people going to see a magic show? Ninety-nine Yuankang? I remember that there seems to be a little Lo named Ninety-Nine Wennai in the next class, Lili is here, it can't be a family, right? This is an old brother playing football, hey, how about you pay attention to Maori Xiaoluo? Li, I didn't see Xiaolan crying, really...... Is this my brother participating in a football match in the middle school?,It's still pretty handsome.,Although it's not as handsome as me...... This is exclusive to Xiaolan and my brother in Karuizawa? The two of them look quite compatible, this one is......

It's so good, looking at the photos of Xiaolan and my brother from kindergarten to high school, it's like watching them grow up from childhood to adulthood, although there is no image, but the two people in the photo look so happy, the expression looks so vivid, and I can clearly feel that happiness through the photo.

If I hadn't had an accident back then, would there have been three people in the photo? Can I also go to and from school together, be naughty and mischievous together, and gag with my brother Xiaolan? I thought about it, and found that although I hated going to school when I was a child, now that I think about it, maybe I have regretted it, and I seem to have wished that I had gone to school with my brother Xiaolan and them.

The two of them are really a good match, and Sister Xiaolan may really become my sister in the future.

It's really happy, the atmosphere is so harmonious, I feel that there is no room for other people between the two.

Thinking of this, I was suddenly stunned for a moment.

Because it occurred to me the question of what was the purpose of my existence. Although I don't want to admit it, my brother's growth rate is far faster than I expected, and I thought that my brother might have caught up with me in reasoning, but what happened just now made me realize that my brother may not have caught up with me, but has surpassed me. On the organization side, whether it's Osaka Kid or Dr. Asasa, or even the FBI, they are all good helpers, whether it's reasoning or confrontation with the organization, my brother doesn't need my help anymore, and he and Xiaolan are also very happy, so, what am I?

What else can I do here? Why am I still here? As long as I am with him, the people who look for me may find them and bring them unnecessary calamity, whether it is Calvados or Hennessy, if it is not me but my brother who met Hennessy at that time...... It makes me shudder to think about it. Should I really stay here?

I think I suddenly understand Xiao Wai's mood at the moment.

My eyes blurred, and the clear faces in the photo became hazy, as if the person in the photo was moving away from me. It was a terrifying feeling.

I can't help but hold the album tightly in my arms, as if this way, I can get closer to the people in the photo. I hate a person.

So sleepy......