The reasoning part was left to Mouri Kogoro.
After ruling out a series of possibilities, several people over there began to assume that the kidnapper was a friend of Masashi Emoto, and asked him to recall and introduce who the people who did not participate in this gathering were.
The first one is Rokuda Takuer, my friend since childhood.
The second one is Hinoya Mensei, a junior in high school.
The third one is Sazuka Yoshikazu, a regular at the gym.
These people were all on the phone when Emoto Shoshi called, but happened to have something to do and couldn't receive the call.
The cliche choice of three...
After listening for a while, Hui Yuan Ai felt a little confused about the situation, so he had to go to Ye Gengyi who was reading the news on the computer and asked:
"Do you know who kidnapped the little boy?"
"Um?"
Ye Geng turned his head and looked:
"Who told you that?"
"Is not it?"
Hui Yuan Ai was confused:
"Why else would you suddenly come here to refresh the news?"
"Because I think this is not a kidnapping incident." Ye Gengyi said.
"Ah?" Hui Yuan Ai didn't understand.
"You can see he's not in a hurry at all."
Ye Gengyi pointed in the direction of General Emoto:
“When faced with an unexpected and unresolvable situation, people without special training, unless they have a unique way to control their emotions, will usually produce negative emotions such as tension, fear, worry, anger, etc… But from this person, Apart from the slight shock when she discovered the ransom note, she acted too calmly compared to the woman who would lower her head and bite her fingers from time to time."
Haihara Ai didn't ask, "What if his psychological quality is good?" This was obviously an insult.
She believed in the judgment of the organization cadre, so she lowered her voice and said:
"You mean he was the one who kidnapped the little boy?"
"It's not very clear, but... maybe he already knows who the other party is."
Ye Gengyi browsed the news website nonchalantly:
"Even if the call history is deleted, the voice messages can be traced back using the email account. Is it really difficult to recall who was called during that time period and then think about why the other party needed 1 million yuan?"
He paused and continued:
"Originally, I wanted to force him to spill the beans directly, but seeing how interested Mr. Mori was, he would probably interrupt me many times and get involved... Well, in fact, he has already done so. It would be better if only Takagi was here. Officer Sato... is not easy to fool, since it involves record-keeping issues, it is better to be cautious."
Well……
"This Geng Yi brother is obviously too smart but extremely cautious?" 》
Hui Yuan Ai was silent for a moment: "Then you plan to wait like this forever?"
"It won't be too long, right?"
Ye Gengyi's tone was calm, and it was hard to tell whether he was asking a rhetorical question:
"Although the little detective has the habit of being impulsive and dying, he will never open his mouth unless he is 70% or 80% sure of his reasoning. However, after having discussed it for so long, it's time to give some advice."
He just finished speaking.
Over there, Conan just said "ah lie":
"Brother, why don't we just go to the homes of your three friends?"
"..."
Hui Yuan Ai raised his head and looked at Ye Gengyi with his half-moon eyes, "You... really understand him."
"It's nothing, just observe more."
Ye Gengyi cleared his browsing history and didn't know what he had planned. He stood up and said hello:
"Let's go together. It's hard to perform well if you stay here."
What to play?
Hui Yuan Ai blinked, his head filled with questions: "Aren't you not going to reason?"
"No reasoning."
Ye Gengyi lowered his voice and did not show off:
"When you get a chance later, you can pretend you have a cold and a stomachache, and then the two of us will go back. Well... don't make it too serious, otherwise you will have to go to the hospital. You can take care of it yourself..."
Haibara Ai:"……"
…
Since Mouri Kogoro is a celebrity who often appears on TV, even if a guest comes to visit pretending to be out of a social gathering, he will be easily recognized by the other party.
Hence this operation.
Mouri Kogoro, Mao Lilan and Emoto Masashi's sister Emoto Aya were left here in the apartment, waiting for contact from the kidnapper.
Ye Gengyi, Haibara Ai, Conan, Takagi Wataru and Sato Miwako, under the leadership of Emoto Shoshi, arrived at an old apartment away from the city.
"I remember the address on the postcard is here..."
Emoto Masashi climbed up the stairs and looked at the overcrowded inbox outside: "Rokuta...Rokuda, ah, we have it! Room 203."
"Eh? Big brother," Conan asked doubtfully, "Aren't you two friends since childhood? Could it be that this is your first time here?"
"Oh, because we all lived in the countryside when we were young..."
Emoto Masashi explained casually, came to room 203 and pressed the doorbell.
【Who? 】
After waiting for about seven or eight seconds, a muffled voice came from the speaker.
"It's me, Emoto," Shogun Emoto replied, "I came directly from the party. Can you excuse me?"
[Oh, please wait...]
The sound of slippers scraping against the ground came closer and closer. After a while, the door opened and a man wearing sportswear who looked a little sloppy came out:
"What are you doing? It's so late and... uh, why are there so many people?"
His complaints suddenly stopped, and his eyes swept over Ye Gengyi and others.
"These are all friends I met through social gatherings," Masashi Emoto introduced, "I mentioned you as a composer, so they all wanted to come and visit."
"P-Visit me?"
Liu Tian Zhuoer hesitated, "Are you all playing music?"
"Um!"
Sato Miwako hugged Takagi Wataru's arm and pointedly said:
"However, his recent lyrics cannot match my music in any way..."
"Hehe, hehe, I'm so sorry." Cold sweat fell from Takagi Watari's forehead.
"But my inspiration has been somewhat exhausted recently..." Liutian Zhuoer didn't seem to want to let a few people in.
"That's great!" Conan suddenly said.
"Too...too good?"
"yes."
After Conan successfully attracted everyone's attention, he immediately ran to Ye Gengyi and said cutely:
"This is Brother Genichi. He has an absolute sense of sound. Even the talented soprano Ms. Reiko Akinewa praised his violin skills."
"Eh?!"
Emoto Shoshi and Rokuda Zhuoer were stunned.
"Speaking of which, there is indeed such a thing..."
Takagi Wataru and Sato Miwako also recalled the previous incident at the Domoto Concert Hall, but since Ye Gengyi was not performing at the time, it was not Conan who mentioned it on his own initiative, so their impressions were really not that deep.
It turns out that Chiba really helped me hire such an amazing guy, but it’s a pity that he is divorced and has a daughter...
Emoto Shoshi shook his head with a little regret, and it seemed that he was too young to match his elder sister.
Hmm... That doctor named Tomaki Shinde seems to be very good, but like Mr. Mori, he likes to attract bees and butterflies too much...
His thoughts were a little off track.
Here, Rokuta Zhuoer was also shocked by Qiuting Reiko's reputation.
Before he could react, Conan had already led the charge and ran into the entrance hall.
"sorry for disturbance……"
Ye Gengyi, Haibara Ai, Sato Miwako and Takagi Wataru followed closely behind.
"Hey, you guys... are you too familiar..."
After Liutian Zhuoer said this half sentence in a depressed manner, he looked at his hair helplessly:
"Forget it, you can come in too."
The interior of the apartment is a standard configuration of one bedroom, one living room, one kitchen, one bathroom and a balcony.
As soon as Takagi Wataru entered the door, he used the excuse of urgent urination and went straight to the bathroom.
Several people came to the living room and passed by the unlocked bedroom. Sato Miwako also looked inside calmly, but unfortunately there was no trace of the child on the outside.
"This apartment is not soundproof. In order to prevent neighbors from running over and banging on the door, please don't make too much noise..."
Liu Tian Zhuoer led several people to the living room, reminded them, turned on the recorder, turned the sound to the lowest level, put in a tape and played it.
After the song was played, about a minute later, Takagi Wataru came over and shook his head slightly at Miwako Sato, indicating that he had not noticed anything unusual.
"Um, sir, how do you like my song?" Liutian Zhuoer asked Ye Gengyi.
"I can listen." Ye Gengyi's evaluation was quite fair.
"Uh..." Liutian Zhuoer froze.
"Believe me, this is already a very good evaluation." Haiyuan Ai yawned and helped translate.
"Really? Haha...thank you."
Rokuda Zhuoer sweated, obviously not used to the way this brother-sister pair spoke.
"I don't sound bad. It's not in vain that you have been insisting on music for so many years..."
Emoto smoothed things over with Shi, but suddenly the conversation changed and he picked up the lottery ticket placed on the table:
"You still like buying this so much."
"No, I have no money recently. Those were from the end of last year, and I also sent you some before..."
Liutian Zhuoer paused, "It would be better to compare the lottery results."
"Forget it, it's impossible to win anyway."
Shoshi Emoto said:
"You, since you have money to buy so many lottery tickets, you might as well move to a better place. And... you should clean out the overcrowded mailbox outside occasionally. Maybe there are some good things in it. Where’s the stuff?”
"Hehe... maybe."
Rokuda Takuer turned off the recorder and turned to Miwako Sato and Wataru Takagi: "What about you? What do you think of my music? Do you want to listen to another one?"
"Uh... don't bother. It's already so late and it's inconvenient to stay here and disturb you. Let's visit another day."
Sato Miwako quickly stood up and left.
They now have neither a search warrant nor any evidence that Haotai is being held here.
Since there was no way to forcibly search the house, the first priority was to go to the residences of Emoto Masashi's two other friends as soon as possible to confirm the situation.
Several people walked downstairs.
Opportunity... Ye Geng glanced at a certain Lolita.
Got it, got it... Haiyuan Ai sighed silently, and then covered his stomach.
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