Going back alone means making a mistake and having to bear it alone;
The 'test product' is not the antidote to APTX-4869, but the pot of curry stewed with football;
And finally, a professor surnamed Ye was about to ask Dr. Ali about the situation of Ayumi's kidnapping, but he interpreted it as Belmod wanting to torture the doctor...
Immediately, Haihara Ai briefly recounted the conversation between her and Ye Gengyi.
It all makes sense, but...
After Conan listened with a strange expression, he asked a key question:
"Why do you think I taught you a bad lesson?"
"Maybe it's because you always like to show off, and you always act like a headless fly in everything you do. You don't care about the future."
Haibara Ai detailed the shortcomings of a certain detective boy.
Just like being in a department store.
Edogawa, who is currently second only to Saradagi in charge of intelligence, actually ran back without thinking at all.
If the person who broke into the doctor's house was someone from the organization, his life would be in vain!
After all, she hadn't told him at that time that the person who answered the phone was 'Belmode'.
"Please..." Conan said helplessly: "I am not as exaggerated as you say!"
"Did you do something exaggerated again?"
"Eh?"
Conan was startled, and suddenly realized that the people who said these words were not the doctor and Haiyuan, and quickly turned to look at the entrance.
I saw Ye Gengyi and Ayumi walking in from the entrance, followed by Mitsuhiko and Genta.
"I saw two of them in the yard hesitant to come in."
Ye Geng changed his shoes without taking off his coat. While talking, he had already come to the living room and took a photo of the curry soup on the floor.
No... this is too calm. It doesn't look like you have successfully rescued the hostages. Those who didn't know better thought you had just returned from taking the three of them out shopping!
Conan was speechless.
Mitsuhiko and Genta lowered their heads and said nothing, but compared to a certain detective boy who was desperately trying to organize his words to find a topic, they were completely ashamed and blaming themselves.
Yuantai simply misunderstood that he kicked the ball into the curry pot, which made Ye Gengyi angry. In addition, from the department store, Conan and Haibara looked so ugly that they didn't bother to pay for the ingredients, so they expressed their desire for one. People went back to the doctor's house to check the situation...
So Genta, who felt guilty, took Mitsuhiko and wandered around 2-chome.
As a result, they didn't know about Bumi's kidnapping until after she was rescued.
However, Ye Gengyi not only did not criticize him harshly, but also had no intention of further understanding the situation. After all, for him, what primary school students can do in the kidnapping case is limited. Since he does not know the inside story, he should just wait and see. , not causing trouble is the greatest help.
Conan did not join the crowd welcoming Bumi's safe return for the time being. After noticing that Ye Gengyi put the curry soup and a handful of snow pear cat hair into the evidence bag, he asked:
"Brother Gengyi, are you collecting evidence?"
"almost."
"Then... where is the kidnapper..."
"Metropolitan Police Department."
"..."
"..."
"Okay, this area can be cleaned up later when we clean up."
Ye Gengyi walked towards the entrance without stopping. When passing Dr. A Li, he said:
"Doctor, there are no fingerprints of the suspect on your mobile phone. You can get it back later. However, the carpet is an important exhibit in this case. Because it involves sentencing standards, it needs to go through the process of identification and damage assessment. It will probably take a while. It can only be returned after this case is over.”
"It doesn't matter, it's just a carpet. Just hope Ayumi comes back safely." Dr. Ali waved his hand nonchalantly.
But Conan's mind was sharp and he noticed the important point, "Brother Gengyi, you just said that the carpet needs to go through the process of identification and damage determination? And it also involves sentencing? But... isn't this a kidnapping case?"
Notice the looks from everyone.
Ye Geng explained one by one:
"The crime of kidnapping is more serious than the crime of robbery, so they currently insist that it was a burglary. This is not urgent... The facts of the case are still open to discussion. As for the carpet, the doctor found a treasure. According to the kidnapper's confession, it was an antique Persian carpet. , the specific value needs to be appraised before we can know it.”
With that said, he changed his shoes and walked out again.
“Antique Persian rug?”
Dr. A Li couldn't help but be a little surprised when he heard this:
"But if the target is the carpet, then why did you kidnap Ayumi?"
"That goes without saying... Of course, if you just break in and take away the carpet, you will call the police no matter what, doctor. But if you kidnap a child, lie and tell us to find a cat, and then take the carpet away after a while, Release it with Ayumi, and they can successfully exchange for that antique rug.”
Conan analyzed: "After all, doctor, you only thought that the vase was an antique from the beginning, right?"
"That's right..." Dr. A Li was bewildered.
"However, if it is a purely hand-woven Persian carpet, especially an antique carpet, as far as I know, the auction price is at least tens of millions of dollars."
Without waiting for anyone to ask, Conan took the initiative and said: "Of course, the specific situation also depends on the degree of preservation."
"I... actually found an antique carpet worth tens of millions of dollars?!" Dr. A Li continued to be surprised.
"PhD……"
Conan said helplessly: "Brother Gengyi said, didn't he? This is just the kidnapper's confession. It's possible that they said it deliberately to reduce the crime. Whether that carpet is an antique or not will only be known after appraisal."
He was worried that the greater his hopes for this year-end friendship, the greater his disappointment. As he spoke, he began to understand the situation from the side:
"Ayumi, do you remember who kidnapped you?"
"Hmm...it seems to be the owner of a decoration company in Sanchome and his wife."
Ayumi said: "That's what I heard them say after Brother Gengyi rescued me."
"Bumi, is this the owner of the decoration shop you are talking about?"
Haibara Ai searched for stores in Sanchome on her computer, and successfully found the photo of the store owner on the homepage profile of a company called 'Kamibe Decoration Company'.
"Yeah! That's him!" Ayumi nodded repeatedly.
"Huh?! It's him!" Dr. Ali was also surprised.
"What's wrong, doctor?" Conan wondered.
"Oh, when you were going out to buy ingredients, he and his wife came to visit and said they saw the video and came to help identify the vase." Dr. A Li said.
So it turns out that this is a false alarm...
Conan breathed out:
"I'm afraid they have been eyeing the carpet of the doctor's house through this video for a long time, but they just figured out the address today. When they came to the door, they found that there were only old people and children at home, so they planned this kidnapping case that was full of loopholes... But the details We still have to wait until Brother Geng Yi comes back to know the situation."
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