Chapter 70: Courage
Xiao Ai fell asleep quietly on the bed like a baby, and the room was very quiet, except for the "ticking" sound of the plant on the wall. I looked at her quiet sleeping face stupidly, I didn't want to do anything, I just wanted to guard her like this forever.
I don't know how long later, there was a sudden knock on the door, I woke up suddenly, went to the door and opened the door, only to see everyone standing outside the door, Xiaolan asked me with some worry, "Is Xiao Ai better?"
"Shhh β
"yes, that's great. Hearing this, Xiaolan patted her chest and smiled reassuringly.
"It's so good, I really want such a considerate little boyfriend......" Yuan Zi stroked his face and said a little nympholy.
"Sister Yuanzi, don't make fun of me anymore. "I looked at the garden with a funny look, a little helpless.
"Minghui is really gentle, just like a prince. Ayumi looked at me with starry eyes, and her expectant expression was self-evident.
"Ayumi, don't just look at Minghui alone!
"That's it!" shouted Motota and Mitsuhiko on the side, dissatisfied.
"So what are you going to do now? Are you going to eat with us? It's already noon. Looking at the two living treasures arguing next to him, Conan sighed and asked me.
"Is it already noon?" I looked at my watch in amazement, and now I don't know when, the hands have actually pointed to the position of twelve o'clock, I didn't expect the time to pass so quickly.
"You guys go eat first, I'm not hungry now, I'll wait here for Xiao Ai to wake up. I waved my hand and smiled at the crowd.
"Then let's go first, if Xiao Ai wakes up and wants to eat, you can go to us, we are in the Dongfeng Lou restaurant in this hotel." Dr. Asa reassured me.
"Okay, I got it. Mayu on the other side didn't say anything the whole time, just looked at me worriedly, and I smiled at her slightly, and she blushed and quickly turned her head. Alas, this little girl is really too introverted, if only she could be a little more cheerful.
"Then let's go first, Xiao Ai will leave it to you, Xiao Hui. As she was leaving, Lan turned around and waved at me.
"Ah, wrap it up on me. β
Back in the room, Xiao Ai is still asleep, listening to Dr. Asa said, recently Xiao Ai in order to study the antidote to the drug, has been conducting experimental research day and night, this heat stroke is probably also a concentrated explosion of fatigue accumulated for a long time, this silly girl, never knew how to take care of her body. Looking at Xiao Ai's somewhat pale face, I felt a little distressed.
It's probably hard to imagine that it's fun to just look at a person's face, but for true lovers, there's probably nothing happier than looking at each other, especially people like us who don't even know if there will be tomorrow.
Time flowed slowly, and in a trance, I felt a soft and smooth touch slowly swimming on my face, and I opened my eyes suddenly, only to see Xiao Ai lying on the bed looking at me with a soft face, and a small jade hand was gently caressing my face. It turned out that I accidentally fell asleep.
I reached out to hold Xiao Ai's soft little hand and smiled, "Awake?"
"Well, just woke up. Xiao Wai nodded gently, with a bright smile on her face, which made me very comfortable.
"Are you hungry?" I looked up at the sky, and suddenly it was dark outside the window, and when I looked up at the clock, it was already seven o'clock!
"Oops! I accidentally overslept!" I scratched my head in annoyance and looked at Xiao Ai apologetically, "I'm sorry, you're probably hungry, are you feeling better?" Let's go eat together. β
Xiao Ai shook his head lightly and said, "I still feel a little tired, you go to them for dinner, they came back just now, and now they are in Dongfeng Building." β
"And what do you do?"
"Just bring me some things when you come back, go quickly, she specially chose Dongfeng Lou to take care of your taste, don't let down the painstaking efforts of others. Xiao Ai smiled at me.
"That'...... Okay," I hesitated, nodded, and said to Xiao Ai, "Then you stay here obediently and wait for me to bring you something, and don't run around." β
"Good. β
"Don't run around!" I said uncomfortably as I stood up and left.
"Got it, how long are you going to treat me like a child. Xiao Ai gave me a funny look.
By the time I arrived at the Dongfeng Building, everyone was already sitting together and began to order.
"Ah, Xiaohui, you're here just in time, everyone is ordering food," Xiaolan saw me at a glance, beckoned to me, and said, "Come, sit here." β
"Good. I answered, and sat next to Xiaolan, but looking at Conan's face, it seemed to be a little depressed, didn't I just sit next to Xiaolan, and Bu Meimei was also a superb Lori, okay? I shook my head a little amusedly.
"Do you have anything you want to eat, didn't Xiao Ai come with you?" Xiao Lan asked me with the menu.
"It doesn't matter what I eat, Xiao Ai's body is still a little weak, and I'm asleep in the room, I'll bring something to her in a while. I laughed.
"Original...... That's right. Xiaolan's face carried a hint of regret.
"Ahra, what's wrong, I think you seem to care about that little girl!" Yuan Zi teased Xiaolan with a gossip expression.
"I just wanted to talk to her, the child doesn't usually talk much, and when I look at her, she immediately looks away, does she hate me? Xiaolan smiled at the garden with some self-deprecation.
The girl's sense is really keen......
"No ......"
"There's no such thing!" Before I could defend Xiao Ai, Ayumi interrupted me: "Because Graybara-san told Conan that you are the kind of girl who gives birth." β
Everyone: "......"
Atmosphere...... Frozen inexplicably......
The faces of the two protagonists present are heating up.
"Ke Ke Ke Ke ...... What the hell did you two say!" Lan shouted angrily at Conan.
"No, no! It's Gray Hara's own nonsense!" Conan scrambled to argue.
"Aren't you complimenting?" Ayumi on the side didn't understand what she had just said.
"Isn't that what it means to be a hitchhiker?"
"That's not what it means, Ansan means that there is a plan to do things. Mitsuhiko and Motota began arguing again. Thanks to the two of them, Xiaolan's face finally changed for the better, and Conan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Well, it doesn't mean that I'm straight and very good. Ayumi said suddenly.
"Ayumi, you sometimes ...... It's pretty bold!" I patted Ayumi on the shoulder and said with a dry smile.
"Huh?" little Lori was a little confused.
"Hey, does that girl usually think of me?" Sonoko asked Ayumi in a lively manner, looking very interested in her answer.
"Well...... She said you look pretty flirtatious. β
"Uhh......h
So, sometimes naivety is also a kind of cruelty......
"Why are you unhappy? You're light, aren't you?" Motota was puzzled by the obvious collapse of the garden.
"Ha-ha-ha-ha......"
I looked at the garden with some sympathy, and even then I had to laugh out loud, it was really hard for her.
"Oh, aren't these imps and the two young ladies?" said a dark-skinned young man who approached us.
"...... is he?" I looked at the doctor, confused.
"He's a local fisherman, Noboru Shimojo, and when he was playing at the beach this morning, he had a little trouble with us over a small boat...... "The doctor lowered his head and whispered to me about the day.
"Oh, I see. I nodded understandingly, this matter is indeed our fault, no wonder.
"Hello. Yuan Zi raised an eyebrow and said perfunctorily to the next article, obviously still thinking about the events of the day.
"Excuse me, but what time is it? Because my watch stopped suddenly. As if he didn't remember the unpleasantness of the day, Shimojo smiled and asked us about the time.
"Seven-twelve. Xiaolan looked at her watch and replied.
"Nerve-wracking, I seem to have come too early. Shimojo muttered to himself as he sat down next to us.
"Come on, come on...... Before someone starts arguing, let's hurry up and get something to eat. Yuan Zi picked up the menu with an unhappy face and said.
"We're not arguing, we're just going to teach that guy a little bit of rules. The man named Shimojo interjected as he pretended not to care as he looked at the menu.
"Rules?" said Sonoko, squinting at the bottom of the line.
That's right, it's a law in nature that can't be broken at will. Shimojo turned his head and said to the garden with a stern face.
It seems that there is an outsider who is fishing here wantonly, destroying the interests of the local people and causing small disputes such as great dissatisfaction among the local fishermen.
I have no interest in the inconsequential grievances of these passers-by, as soon as the things are on the table, I begin to gobble them up, the world is big, the meal is the biggest, hurry up and finish eating, and take something to Xiao Ai to eat is the right reason.
Soon, a fat man named Yuta Yoshizawa and a tall man from Shinji Nezu also rushed to the Dongfeng Building, and got together at a table with Shimojo, I heard that they both grew up together, and today they are all coming to find the man called Aramaki who broke the rules. As for who you listened to......
I turned my head to look at the garden next to me who was hooking shoulders with those few people, pretending to laugh heartily, and felt a little helpless. Really, obviously she was incompatible with those people just now, but after a while, they got together, should I say that she is open-minded or heartless......
"Our dad's boat was hit and sunk by that guy Adamaki, and it was ...... with his pirate ship," the man named Nezu suddenly interjected as Shimojo and Yoshizawa laughed at Sonoko about their father's shipwreck.
"Hey, why are you still mentioning this, Shinji. β
"You're really stubborn......" Yoshizawa and Shimojo, who were flushed from drinking, said to Nezu with a big tongue. It seems that this is not the first time that Nezu has said this.
"Where is that pirate now?" Nezu looked around at the people around him, and now that there was no one he was looking for, he asked the two of them, "He should have come a long time ago, right?"
"It's 8:40, and I think he's forgotten about it. Yoshizawa looked at his watch.
"Then I'll wake him up. With that, Nezu took out his mobile phone from his pocket and dialed Aramaki, and the call was connected, but unfortunately no one answered, and then the phone was hung up.
Because during the short talk time, several people heard the sound of the waves in the microphone, so they decided to finish their meal and go to the beach at about half past nine to find Aramaki, and if Aramaki really deliberately missed the appointment, they would beat him up or something.
Hearing the agreement of a few people, I took the time to look at my watch while eating nonsense, well, it was eight forty-five.
"Very well, forty-five minutes to go, we must finish eating and go back to the room before half-past nine!" I clenched my fists excitedly.
"Why do you have to go back before half-past nine, Minghui-san?" Ayumi looked at me puzzled.
"It's an experience I've built up over a long period of time. β
"What experience?" said this, and everyone looked at me curiously.
"In my experience," I cleared my throat when I saw that everyone was looking at me. As long as Conan is here, then when everyone is looking for someone, it will be that person has been killed inexplicably, and then the search for people will inexplicably evolve into a murder incident, and then the police will come to investigate everyone's alibi, and after a tortuous process, the case will be solved, and then the prisoner will come out and kneel on the ground, shed tears, and tell everyone a singable and crying, tear-jerking tragic past and the place where the dead man should die, and finally the prisoner is brought to justice, all of them are happy, gratifying. β
"Therefore, in order to avoid being implicated in such a troublesome incident, I must rush back before half past nine. I concluded.
Conan was smiling dryly, and everyone looked uncomfortable, his eyes a little wandering.
"I ...... I think I'd better hurry up and go back to my room. Ayumi looked at Conan and then at me, but in the end she didn't dare to put the treasure on Conan's body, and said with some confidence. There is a way to believe that it exists, not to believe that it is not, girls' families, no matter how curious they are, they are a little afraid of the dead after all.
"Say...... That's right, let's hurry up and eat, Yuan Taijun, we haven't finished the poker just now. Mitsuhiko twitched the corners of his mouth and said to Yuan Tai.
"Ah...... Ah, yes, my mother also said that it is better to eat faster to be efficient. Hearing Mitsuhiko's suggestion, Yuantai hurriedly responded.
"Na, Xiaolan, don't we ...... too" Yuan Zi seemed to remember Conan's "glorious" example, and pulled Xiaolan's sleeve, the meaning in his eyes was self-evident.
"It's not that exaggerated, garden, you really ...... Hehehe. As if to strengthen her courage, Xiaolan smiled deliberately, but halfway through the laugh, her momentum weakened.
"Hey, you guys!" Conan shouted at a few people in annoyance, "I don't always meet dead people, do I?!"
"Oh, for example?" I asked, raising an eyebrow and intriguing Conan.
"Ugh!" Conan was speechless. At this moment, even Dr. Asasa and Mayu silently sped up their meals.
"Now, wouldn't it be better for us to go find Aramaki now?" Seeing the strange situation on our side, even Yoshizawa was a little weak-hearted, and said to the other two.
"Hah...... Haha, it's okay, it's just a joke of a few children, why take it seriously, Yoshizawa you really are, we don't usually have a petty thief here, let alone kill someone. Shimojo stiffened unscrupulously for a moment, then smiled and patted Yoshizawa on the shoulder and said, "If there is really a murderer, we should sober up and go again, isn't it dangerous to go out drunk like this?"
"That's right, how can we have a murderer like a person here, hahaha......" Hearing the next words, Yoshizawa also laughed. Nezu didn't speak.
At half past nine, I was the only one who returned to the guest room with the packed fried buns, and the others didn't want to go back, but Conan, who was shouting "I must prove my innocence, whoever doesn't go will not trust me!" was dragged to accompany him out to find someone.
May the Lord bless them, Amen.
When I returned to the room, Xiao Ai was sitting at the head of the bed looking at the lights outside the window, as soon as I entered the door, Xiao Ai turned her head to me and smiled, "Full?"
"Of course, I brought you something good!" I grinned, patted the lunch box in my hand, and leaned over to Xiao Ai's bed.
"I still don't have much appetite. Little lamented and looked at me slightly apologetically.
"It's okay, it's okay, I've brought you the perfect food for the ultimate taste, and you're going to have an appetite. I smiled and opened the lunch box, and a rich aroma spread through the room.
"This is the perfect food for the ultimate deliciousness?" Xiao Ai asked me, pointing to the fried buns in the lunch box, smiling.
"Of course, you like it very much!Sa, eat, don't be polite to me!" I straightened my chest and said to Xiao Wailing proudly.
"This is what you like!" Xiao Wai gave me an angry look: "You obviously know that I don't like such greasy things very much." β
"Of course I know, but your body is too weak now, you have to make up for it, no matter how much or too little, you have to eat a little. I sat on the edge of Xiao Ai's bed and smiled at Xiao Ai.
"If you don't eat, I'll cry to you!" Seeing that Xiao Ai didn't mean to do anything, I stared at Xiao Ai with tears in my eyes, full of resentment.
"Okay, okay, I'm afraid of you, I can't eat it, don't look at me with that kind of look!" Xiao Wai turned his head, a faint flush appeared on his face, his eyes were slightly closed, his eyebrows frowned slightly, and his green and jade fingers gently rubbed his temples, looking quite a headache.
"That's pretty much it, huh. I raised my chin proudly, and looked at Xiao Ai with her mouth slightly open to eat in the posture of a victor, Xiao Ai's eating was so tempting, looking at her neat and white teeth, I wished that she was biting not a bun but me.
"Don't look! Turn around!" Xiao Ai was embarrassed by my look, and said angrily to me.
"Okay, I don't look at it, you eat quickly. I quickly turned around.
"Why haven't they come back yet?" asked Xiao Ai after eating the buns.
"Ah, Conan, in order to prove that he is not the Grim Reaper, went to find witnesses, and everyone else was pulled over by him. But if you haven't come back for so long, it probably proves that this proposition has failed. I shrugged my shoulders and smiled wickedly. Looking at the watch, it's almost eleven o'clock.
"Yes. "It seems that Xiao Ai also agrees with my point of view.
"By the way, go and get Edogawa's bow-tie voice changer to him, he forgot to take it here when he came at noon today, and he's probably going to use it later. After a moment of silence, Xiao Wai said to me.
"No problem, but what do you do?" I was more worried about Xiao Wai than Conan.
"Let's go out for a walk together, I've been lying here for a day, and I want to go out and get some air. Xiao Wai thought for a moment, tilted his head and smiled at me.
"Is it okay with your body?" I frowned a little worriedly.
"It's okay, it's just heat stroke, and I've been sleeping for a day. Xiao Ai got out of bed by himself as she spoke, jumped twice, and smiled at me: "Look, I said it's okay." β
"Well, since you say so, it's up to you, but if you're uncomfortable, you can sue me. "Although I'm still not very relieved, it's hard for me to refuse Xiao Wai.
"Good. β
When I got out of the room, I just saw two waiters passing by in the corridor, and I hurriedly stretched out my hand to greet me, "Two sisters, I'm sorry, I have something I want to ask." β
"What do you want to ask, little brother?" said two waiters, one of whom bent down and smiled at me.
"Are there any murders or anything like that around here?" I asked, pretending to be naΓ―ve.
"Yes, it seems that a person was killed on the beach not far from the hotel more than an hour ago!" said the waiter, looking at the other person next to him.
"Yes, yes, I heard that he was drowned in the sea with fishing nets wrapped all over his body!" said another.
"Well, that's terrible!"
"Little brother, why are you asking this? Don't go there, the police uncle is investigating the case! The prisoner hasn't been caught, it's very dangerous!" the waitress told me with a serious face.
"Well, we just want to get around that place, don't worry, sister, we won't be there!" I nodded obediently, and when the two waiters walked away, Xiao Ai and I walked towards the place they had said.
Place is easy to find, because it is a sight to see a crowd of people piled there on an empty beach. Walking inside, Conan was groping up and down all over his body in a panic.
"Are you looking for this?" I said, handing the voice changer to Conan.
"Minghui, Gray Plains, why are you here?" Conan asked us in surprise.
"I knew it was, how well, Doctor? How much did I guess my prediction?" I asked Dr. Asasa with a smile.
"Well...... Hah, hah, ha...... Except for the prisoner's self-report, so far all of them have ...... "Dr. Asasa scratches his already sparse head in embarrassment.
"Don't be wordy!" Conan shouted at me with red ears and asked, "How did you know we were here?"
"It's very simple, when we saw that you weren't coming, we asked the waiter if there was any murder in the vicinity, and we knew that this was the place. Xiao Ai said lightly.
"I'm sorry, we forgot about you. Dr. Asasa said apologetically.
"Speaking of which, why is everyone else missing?" Xiao Ai and I looked around, the police and the fishermen were there, and we didn't see the corpses, probably sent for autopsy, except for a few children.
"Ah, they......"
"Hey ......"
"Conan ......"
"We've found ......"
Before Conan could explain to us, a couple of children came running in our direction with a large pile of things. When I got closer, I realized that there was a large shell, the corpse of a starfish, and some basins and buckets and stuff.
"Looks like you've got the case out. I turned my head to look at Conan.
"Hehe, you just wait to see the show. Conan said to me with a smug frown.
Soon, I learned about the case through GuΓ² Ayumi. The person who died was the guy named Aramaki, and the cause of death was drowning, and his body was pushed onto the beach by the waves, and his body was wrapped in fishing nets, and there were many small scars on his body. The deceased's mobile phone was also found in the fishing net, the surface was also covered with scratches, and from the call records, there were a total of five call records, Yoshizawa's call was made at 7:02, the next one was at 7:47, 8:03 and 8:18, and finally Nezu made a call at 8:41. Not far from the body of the body appeared on the surface of the sea, a boat filled with seawater, and in the boat there was a shoe taken off, a wine bottle and a button, all of which proved to be the belongings of the deceased.
It looks like someone deliberately drunk Aramaki and drowned him in the water.
Then, the reasoning show of "Detective" Dr. Agasa began.
I sat on the beach behind Dr. Asasa with my head in my hands, and watched with amusement as Conan imitated Dr. Asasa's tone and used a voice changer to solve crimes, and it was the first time I watched the live broadcast of Conan's voice changing mystery show like this.
Conan glared at me fiercely, and seeing that I was indifferent, he did not dare to say anything, so he had to bite the bullet and begin his reasoning.
The process of reasoning is very smooth, not only locking the prisoner into Shimojo, using the props found by the children, pressing Shimojo in a boat in a sand pit and drunken Aramaki, and then using the rising tide to drown him is reasonable, but when it comes to evidence, it is difficult.
"According to what you just said, there is no evidence that I killed that old man! You just explained that he was drunk, and that he was caught in a fishing net and thrown into the sea. This doesn't prove anything at all!" Seeing that Dr. Asa could not provide evidence, Shimojo, who had already begun to be a little flustered, began to be arrogant again.
"Yes, Dr. Asasa, you can't say that he killed people if you don't have proof. Officer Yokozo on the side also looked at Dr. Asasa in embarrassment.
"Of course I won't have proof, because it's all evidence in your favor. Conan's words made everyone present, including Dr. Asasa who played with him stunned, but I know very well that Conan is not the kind of guy who has no purpose.
Sure enough, under Conan's pretending to be stupid, the angry Shimojo impulsively told the information that "the time of death of the deceased is eight o'clock", but he didn't confess.
Cornered, Shimojo stood there trembling and staring blankly, I looked at Conan, my eyes narrowed into crescents, and I said to Conan with my mouth: "Three, two, one, kneel!"
As soon as I said the word "kneel", I saw the next "plop" and fell to the ground softly. Conan's face was black......
"Ardennes!"
"Are you trying to avenge your father......" Both Yoshizawa and Nezu looked at Shimojo, who fell to his knees in disbelief.
"Yes, thank me!" Shimojo, who looked up, began to explain the reason for his killing, saying that Aramaki had rammed and sunk their father's ship at sea eight years ago, and that he had killed people who knew about it.
"Even if that's the case, you don't have to kill him, so aren't you just like him?" Facing Shimojo, who was full of hatred, Nezu's eyes were a little complicated.
"What are you talking about? I have avenged you! I sacrificed myself, and finally mustered up the courage to kill that guy for the sake of heaven! And you ...... What kind of attitude do you have!" Shimojo yelled at the two of them, waving his arm.
Looking at the somewhat hysterical next strip, I sighed. This man is hopeless, and humanity has been distorted by hatred.
"No, you're wrong!" Xiaolan, who had been standing quietly on the side, suddenly spoke, making us all stunned for a moment, and looked at her.
"You're wrong," Xiaolan raised her head and looked at the next article, and said slowly but firmly: "Because the word 'courage' should mean fighting for justice, and it can't be used as a reason to kill!" Xiaolan's eyes were filled with compassion for human nature that moved me.
Xiaolan's simple and profound words were stunned, and Xia Tiao was finally speechless, and obediently followed the police back to the police station, just like a calm sea, quietly...... A sad smile appeared on his face. But I know that the next article at this time is no longer the same as him just now, and at this moment he no longer has the terrifying anger of Fang Cai, Xiaolan's words saved him.
"Courage...... "Xiao Ai, who was standing beside me, muttered thoughtfully.
Because of the murder, the next day, everyone's interest in playing was not very high. In the evening, the afterglow of the setting sun spreads on the sea, reflecting a golden glow, which is very charming, and the golden sand beach is as dazzling as gold. Xiaolan and Yuanzi squatted on the beach and teased the seagulls beside them, looking a little depressed, and it seemed that they had not recovered from yesterday's incident.
Suddenly, the seagulls around Xiaolan flew around, Xiaolan was stunned for a moment, and when she looked back, she was now standing behind her. Xiaolan and Yuanzi were stunned, a little unclear. Xiao Ai took the initiative to approach them, and this was the first time.
"My name is Gray Plains, please advise. After staring at Xiao Lan carefully for a long time, Xiao Ai suddenly smiled and stretched out her hand to Xiao Lan.
Xiaolan was stunned again for a moment, and then smiled softly and stretched out her hand to Xiao Ai: "Each other, please advise each other." β
The golden sand is like satin, the blue waves are like brocade, the sea breeze caresses, the waves are slight, and the style is infinite. I stood from a distance and watched this qiΔ, and I was very relieved. Xiao Ai finally took this step on her own, which shows that she has become much stronger again, which will be of great benefit to her in the future.
Perhaps, even if I travel far away in the future, I don't have to worry about her so much anymore......
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