The dirt road leading to the highway from the village has many potholes due to the rain.
Although Ye Gengyi's driving skills were good and he avoided as many bumps as possible, the shaking for more than ten minutes still made Kogoro Maori complain repeatedly. He lamented that if it were not for the purpose of running the car, he would never do such a bumpy road again in the future. There is no repaired village.
During this period, Mao Lilan kept looking at her childhood sweetheart with worry... To be precise, her childhood sweetheart's butt.
Kudo Shinichi was sitting on a thick cotton cushion that a few people bought from the village, looking out the window expressionlessly.
He has decided to be a primary school student for a while after returning to Edogawa Conan this time.
As for the identity of 'Kudo Shinichi', let him remain silent for a while...
Of course, before that, we still have to appease Xiaolan and... Mohu's topic of 'having hemorrhoids' must be kept secret by other people in the car!
Kudo Shinichi gathered his thoughts and stared at the reflection on the car window. His voice was still hoarse, "Xiaolan, what do you want to tell me...what is it?"
"Ah? Do you want to say it here?...That, is, I...I..."
Mao Lilan paused a little embarrassedly and said: "I want to ask if you feel uncomfortable because of the bump just now?"
"Stupid, stupid! Who asked you to ask this!"
Kudo Shinichi's heart was beating wildly, and his level of panic was second only to his identity being revealed.
In the driver's seat, Ye Gengyi took the time to glance at the rearview mirror, admiring the loneliness and loneliness in the expression of the dead detective.
Not bad, just think of it as interest for hiding this kid’s identity...
While satisfying his bad taste, he touched up the knife and said:
"Xiaolan, don't worry. We are already on the expressway. The road behind will be smooth, and I will drive slower. Kudo-san's... well, it shouldn't be that uncomfortable."
(╥╯^╰╥)...Brother Gengyi, the part about me that follows can be completely omitted!
And... Hattori, you bastard! I can already see you smiling!
Kudo Shinichi was about to cry, and almost jumped out of the door, and it was over.
"Uh, thank you. I'll excuse you, Brother Gengyi..." Mao Lilan was still thanking him.
"Don't worry about it." Ye Gengyi accepted it as a matter of course.
After the simple conversation, the atmosphere in the car became quiet again.
Mao Lilan opened her mouth many times, hesitating to speak, but finally chose to remain silent... Shinichi, this idiot! Actually asking here what do you want to say to him? How can I open my mouth?
The van drove forward along the wide highway.
Ye Gengyi habitually checked whether there were any tracking vehicles, and suddenly his eyes fell on a red efini rx-7.
It was Sato Miwako's car... He immediately identified it by the license plate number.
At the same time, the car also drove quickly from the next lane. Just before it was about to pass them, the passenger window lowered, and Miwako Sato shouted in this direction:
"Eh? What a coincidence! We meet here."
The silent atmosphere was suddenly revived. Mao Lilan lowered the window with a smile on his face: "It's Officer Zuoto and Officer Takagi. Are you two dating?"
"No, I went to the Kanagawa Prefecture Police Station to handle some matters. Now I'm asking the dedicated driver next to me to take me back to the Metropolitan Police Department."
Miwako Sato pointed at Takagi Wataru and teased him in a joking way, then asked:
"What about you? Mr. Ye and Mr. Mao Li are both here. Are they going to deal with some cases again?"
"Well……"
A group of people in the van were silent.
Kudo Shinichi shrank his head, clasped his hands together, closed his eyes and prayed secretly in his heart... It was great that he didn't see me.
Enough with the small talk!
Don't... don't spread the word that I have hemorrhoids casually!
I don’t care whether his prayers were answered or not.
But both parties are clear about how dangerous it is to drive cars side by side on the highway.
I didn’t deliberately wait for a reply from here.
Miwako Sato left a message saying, "We'll talk about Yuko later," and asked Wataru Takagi to speed up and return to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Huh... I finally escaped.
A certain detective boy quietly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
Mouri Kogoro looked at the taillights of the car in front and said:
"Such an earth-shattering news, even if we didn't tell it, it would probably be in tomorrow's newspaper, right?"
"Ahem... I don't think so."
Hattori Heiji had laughed enough, and did not want his reasoning partner, whom he had known for a while, to think that he was just a person who only took pleasure in misfortunes. He coughed lightly and explained:
"When I was taking notes, I heard the hospital call the police. The reporter, the old woman who was stabbed, was out of danger because she was sent to the hospital in time. She also said that we should rest assured that she would not I will write a report about what happened in the village and publish it...but I don’t know if it is true or not.”
"Eh?"
Mouri Kogoro was startled, "With that reporter's personality, he can't be so easy to talk to, right?"
"Who knows why that old woman did that?" Hattori Heiji paused and guessed: "Uh... I guess it's not because Brother Genichi recorded a video of her, right?"
"no."
Ye Gengyi thought about using that video to restrain Hanoi Fukasato, who had a very bad personality. However, the reason why the other party gave up reporting and came to the village was somewhat different from his initial guess.
Hattori Heiji mentioned the phone call the hospital made to the Ousui Town police, and he also heard the content.
A year ago, after the Japanese couple both died, the incident caused a sensation.
Due to work needs, Kawauchi Shenri had to bring his 5-year-old daughter to the village for interviews.
However, during the process, her daughter sneaked into the forest to play and accidentally got lost.
At that time, most people in the village went into the forest to help search. Just when everyone was at a loss, her daughter ran out of the forest alone and claimed that she was driven out by the God of Death.
Fukasato Kawauchi is very grateful to this character in the story of monsters. This time she will come to Ousui Village again, and it has nothing to do with the appearance of Kudo Shinichi. She just wants to find the Shinigami who starts to appear again. Say thank you in person.
And these are the reasons why Kawauchi Fukasato chose to forgive the other party for the stabbing and not report the incident after knowing that the man who died a year ago was Makoto Yada.
As for why he was at the Japanese village chief's house, he kept threatening several people with words like 'reporting'.
Ye Gengyi analyzed that it is not only a way to "protect oneself", but also a habit that is difficult for humans to abandon.
After all, as long as many people have a little bit of power, they will use 'it' to embarrass others as much as possible in order to show their difference.
Ye Gengyi elaborated on this information selectively.
Everyone was stunned.
A certain detective boy also breathed a sigh of relief... He was lucky, so no more people would know that he appeared in Ousui Village again.
As one of the parties involved who visited Okuho Village a year ago, after hearing Ye Gengyi recall the past, Kudo Shinichi also remembered the scene when he first met Yada Makoto. Therefore, he was naturally quite satisfied with this explanation. trust.
The topic came to the review of the case. Yuan Shan and Ye Luo were thinking about it, and suddenly remembered something, and said with some lingering thoughts:
"However, it is really too dangerous... If Makoto Yada framed Kudo, his target was not the female reporter, but Heiji who was in the same room with him..."
She shuddered and did not dare to continue.
"Oh, don't worry. Although what you said may happen, the probability is actually very low. Otherwise, he would not have used a knife when he committed the murder at the Rihara village chief's house, but would have directly used a pistol."
Hattori Heiji reasoned:
"I guess that Yata would choose to kill the old lady reporter. The most important thing is because she said something like 'Look at your innocent face, do you think you can hide it from me' last night?" It was mistakenly thought that he had plastic surgery to look like Kudo."
Hearing this, Mouri Kogoro took the opportunity to teach:
"So, you high school students, don't think that just because you broke a few stories and got published in a few reports, you will become arrogant. This incident is a good lesson. If it is my detective Mouri Kogoro, even if there is a misunderstanding , the reputation cannot be so bad!"
This is probably to vent his dissatisfaction that his daughter has been peeking at Kudo Shinichi, right?
Ye Gengyi read the tool man's thoughts.
In this regard, Kudo Shinichi, who plays the role of "breaking platonic love" on a daily basis, and Hattori Heiji, who always pulls Ome into trouble and breaks the relationship, obviously do not understand.
They just felt that if the person who went to Aosui Village to break the crime a year ago was this uncle Hutu, he might really have become a headless man who broke into the house and killed people.
Ye Gengyi did not bring the idea of discussing the topic of 'cabbage and pigs' with several people. Instead, he retracted his gaze to the right lane, changed lanes, and suddenly began to increase the speed of the car.
...When you are with these people, you can encounter anything bad. With this time and horizon, I don’t know if I can pretend not to notice and drive over quickly.
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At the same time, Kogoro Mouri, who was sitting in the passenger seat, also saw a white Mercedes-Benz in the rightmost lane ahead, rubbing against the guardrail and continuing to drive forward.
